Bearing-based Formation Control for Obstacle Avoidance

Design of decentralized controllers for obstacle avoidance based on the measured bearing whilst retaining formation

Guide: Prof. Dwaipayan Mukherjee, IIT Bombay.

  • Studied state-of-art formation control algorithms under position, distance, and bearing-based measurements
  • Learned about concepts of bearing rigidity, minimal rigidity, and persistence for formations
  • Designed bearing-based barrier functions to develop controller filters after partitioning the regions
  • Developed ideas of smooth “AND” and “OR” for combining different barrier functions
A suitable set of suitable unions and intersections used to define feasible region of an obstacle.