Bearing Only Distributed Circumnavigation with Limited Target Information for Asymmetric Dubins Vehicles
For multi-vehicle systems with limited target information and asymmetric turning capabilities, this work provides a theoretical framework for distributed circumnavigation, though it is incremental as it extends existing bearing-only methods to a specific vehicle model.
This paper presents bearing-only distributed guidance laws for heterogeneous asymmetric Dubins vehicles to cooperatively circumnavigate a stationary target, where only a subset of vehicles know the target location. The laws achieve global asymptotic stability and convergence to a common center, validated through simulations.
In this paper, we present a class of bearing based distributive nonlinear guidance laws for the cooperative circumnavigation of a stationary target by a heterogeneous team of asymmetric Dubins vehicles. In such a vehicle, the maximal left and right turn capabilities are non uniform. In the given framework, the location of the target is known only to a small subset of the vehicles, called the leaders. The uninformed vehicles, called the followers, use information from their out neighbours in the communication graph, constructed using the nearest neighbour rule. A class of guidance laws is formulated that relies solely on the heading angle and line of sight angles of a designated out neighbour of the vehicle in the graph. Using Zubov theorem, we prove that the proposed guidance laws achieve global asymptotic stability under angular speed only control and ensure the convergence of the trajectories of all the Dubins vehicles to a common centre. The proposed results are validated through numerical simulations.