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Coordination of nonholonomic mobile robots for diffusive threat defense. (English) Zbl 1412.93059
Summary: This paper studies coordination of a team of nonholonomic mobile robots with smart actuators for defending against invasive threat to a planar convex area. The threat refers to a kind of harmful substance such as chemical pollutant appearing outside and moving towards the area. The invasion of threat can be modeled by a 2D unsteady reaction-diffusion process. To reflect the adverse effect of threat on the area, a so-called risk intensity field is introduced. The value of risk intensity is equal to the concentration of threat measured by a static mesh sensor network. Based on this risk intensity field, a coordination control scenario using Voronoi tessellation is formulated. In order to minimize the actuator performance loss and reduce the total average risk intensity simultaneously, a generalized centroidal Voronoi tessellation (CVT) algorithm including optimal motion control and risk mitigation control is designed. The proposed algorithm is gradient-based and guides mobile robots to track their optimal trajectories asymptotically. Meanwhile, two conditions of choosing control gains are derived to keep the total average risk intensity below a safety level. Several simulation examples with different cases of threat invasion are provided and the advantage of proposed algorithm over traditional control method is presented.

##### MSC:
 93C85 Automated systems (robots, etc.) in control theory 93C20 Control/observation systems governed by partial differential equations 70F25 Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles
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