Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums, and Seminars
  4. Agent Prioritization and Virtual Drag Minimization in Dynamical System Modulation For Obstacle Avoidance of Decentralized Swarms
 
conference paper

Agent Prioritization and Virtual Drag Minimization in Dynamical System Modulation For Obstacle Avoidance of Decentralized Swarms

Douce, Louis-Nicolas
•
Menichelli, Alessandro  
•
Huber, Lukas  
Show more
January 1, 2023
2023 Ieee/Rsj International Conference On Intelligent Robots And Systems (Iros)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Efficient and safe multi-agent swarm coordination in environments where humans operate, such as warehouses, assistive living rooms, or automated hospitals, is crucial for adopting automation. In this paper, we augment the obstacle avoidance algorithm based on dynamical system modulation for a swarm of heterogeneous holonomic mobile agents. A smooth prioritization is proposed to change the reactivity of the swarm towards the specific agents. Further, a soft decoupling of the initial agent's kinematics is used to design an independent rotation control to ensure the agent reaches the desired position and orientation simultaneously. This decoupling allowed the introduction of a novel heuristic, the virtual drag. It minimizes the disturbance influence an agent has when moving through its surrounding. Additionally, the safety module adapts the velocity commands from the dynamical system modulation to avoid colliding trajectories between agents. The evaluation was performed in simulated assisted living and hospital environments. The prioritization successfully increased the minimum distance relative to a moving agent. The safety module is observed to create collision-free dynamics where alternative methods fail. Additionally, the repulsive nature of the safety module augments the convergence rate, thus making the proposed method better applicable to dense real-world scenarios.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341717
Web of Science ID

WOS:001136907803007

Author(s)
Douce, Louis-Nicolas
Menichelli, Alessandro  
Huber, Lukas  
Bolotnikova, Anastasia  
Paez-Granados, Diego
Ijspeert, Auke  
Billard, Aude  orcid-logo
Corporate authors
IEEE
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2023 Ieee/Rsj International Conference On Intelligent Robots And Systems (Iros)
ISBN of the book

978-1-6654-9190-7

Start page

8882

End page

8888

Subjects

Technology

•

Navigation

•

Environments

•

Algorithms

•

Robot

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
BIOROB  
LASA  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Detroit, MI

OCT 01-05, 2023

FunderGrant Number

EU ERC grant SAHR

EPFL Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)

EU

779942

Available on Infoscience
March 18, 2024
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/206316
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés