Stabilization laws for collective motion in three dimensions

This paper proposes a framework for the design of control laws that stabilize relative equilibria in a model of identical, steered particles moving in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Under the assumption of all-to-all communication, the derived control laws only require relative orientations and positions. We extend the obtained results in the presence of limited communication topologies by equipping each agent with a consensus estimator.

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