Passivity as a Design Tool for Group Coordination
Arcak, M.
Rensselaer Polytech Inst., Troy;
This paper appears in: Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Aug. 2007
Volume: 52,
Issue: 8
On page(s): 1380-1390
ISSN: 0018-9286
INSPEC Accession Number: 9610083
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TAC.2007.902733
Current Version Published: 2007-08-13
Abstract
We pursue a group coordination problem where the objective is to steer the differences between output variables of the group members to a prescribed compact set. To stabilize this set we study a class of feedback rules that are implementable with local information available to each member. When the information flow between neighboring members is bidirectional, we show that the closed-loop system exhibits a special interconnection structure which inherits the passivity properties of its components. By exploiting this structure we develop a passivity-based design framework, which results in a broad class of feedback rules that encompass as special cases some of the existing formation stabilization and group agreement designs in the literature. The passivity approach offers additional design flexibility compared to these special cases, and systematically constructs a Lurie-type Lyapunov function for the closed-loop system. We further study the robustness of these feedback laws in the presence of a time-varying communication topology, and present a persistency of excitation condition which allows the interconnection graph to lose connectivity pointwise in time as long as it is established in an integral sense.
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