JAREE (Journal on Advanced Research in Electrical Engineering)
Vol 9, No 1 (2025): January

Leader-Follower Formation and Obstacle Avoidance for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Using Velocity Obstacles

Putra, Misbah Habib (Unknown)
Agustinah, Trihastuti (Unknown)
Sahal, Mochammad (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Feb 2025

Abstract

A multi-robot system is a group of robots that coordinate and perform complex tasks with the help of a communication system. The commonly adapted approaches in multi-robot formation control include the leader-follower method, where the leading robot acts as the coordination center, and follower robots track the movement of the leading robot. Multi-robot formations are usually faced by static and dynamic obstacles in the operational environment. In this paper, the obstacle-avoidance challenge is tackled by adopting the concept of velocity obstacles in a way that enables the robots to efficiently consider not only the velocity of an obstacle but also its direction in order to avoid collision. The method is evaluated through several simulation scenarios in different environments. The simulation results show that the multi-robot formation version can successfully avoid static and dynamic obstacles and reform a formation right afterward from zero collisions.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jaree

Publisher

Subject

Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

JAREE is an Open Access Journal published by the Department of Electrical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya – Indonesia. Published twice a year every April and October, JAREE welcomes research papers with topics including power and energy systems, telecommunications ...