A Formation Reconfiguration Strategy of Wheeled Mobile Robots Under Spatiotemporal Constraints
摘要
This paper investigates the formation reconfiguration problem of wheeled mobile robot (WMR) systems under spatiotemporal and input constraints. Specifically, we formally introduce the concept of fixed-time discrete control Lyapunov functions (FT-DCLFs) and provide the control Lyapunov constraint condition that ensures the fixed-time stability of discrete-time systems. We then consider the design of an integrated control strategy that confines the trajectories of WMR systems to a safe set (avoiding collisions) and steers them to the goal state within a fixed time. To this end, we utilize a quadratic programming (QP) formulation to compute the control inputs by unifying the discrete-time control barrier function (DCBF) and FT-DCLF within the framework. Furthermore, we implement the proposed algorithm through simulation studies on the formation reconfiguration of WMRs in environments with obstacles.