Nearest Neighbor-based Rendezvous for Sparsely Connected Mobile Agents

Abstract

In this paper a convergent, nearest-neighbor, control protocol is suggested for agents with nontrivial dynamics. The protocol guarantees convergence to a common point in space even if each agent is restricted to communicate with a single nearest neighbor. The neighbor, however, is required to lie outside an arbitrarily small priority zone surrounding the agent. The control protocol consists of two layers interconnected in a provably-correct manner. The first layer provides the guidance signal to a rendezvous point assuming that the agents have first order dynamics. The other layer converts in a decentralized manner the guidance signal to a control signal that suits realistic agents such as UGVs, UAVs and holonomic agents with second order dynamics.

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