Maintaining an autonomous agent's position in a moving formation with range-only measurements

Using concepts from switched adaptive control theory, a provably correct solution is given to the problem of maintaining the position of a point modelled mobile autonomous agent in a moving formation in the plane using only range measurements to three of its neighbors. The performance of the resulting system degrades gracefully in the face of measurement and miss-alignment errors, provided the measurement errors are not too large.

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