15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
HIGH LEVEL PATH COORDINATION FOR MULTIPLE VEHICLES AND RECIPROCAL ROOT LOCUS
Aldo Balestrino, Alberto Landi
Dipartimento di Sistemi Elettrici e Automazione (DSEA)
Università di Pisa, Via Diotisalvi, 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
Email: landi@dsea.unipi.it

This paper presents a method based on the reciprocal root locus (RRL) approach for solving the multiple vehicle path coordination problem. A high level planning assigns the tasks to each vehicle, specifying each mission, inside a structured workspace with known obstacles. The problem is solved in two steps: first the given workspace is mapped onto a semicircle, using the theory of conformal mappings, then the RRL method is applied. Examples involving multiple vehicles illustrate the proposed technique and its effectiveness.
Keywords: Multiple mobile vehicles, Root locus, High-level path coordination
Session slot T-Tu-A05: Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles I/Area code 8f : Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles