NEW FORMATION CONTROL DESIGNS WITH VIRTUAL LEADERS

New Formation Control Designs with Virtual Leaders

Two formation control designs are presented for flocking of a group of mobile autonomous agents in an obstacle-free environment. Both control designs use virtual leader(s) and two different interactive forces. Virtual leader(s) are used to direct the group to track a desired path, as well as to ensure the group’s cohesion, via the attractive force between agents and their virtual leader(s). The...

Designing a new robust control for virtual inertia control in the microgrid with regard to virtual damping

Background and Objectives: Virtual inertia control, as a component of a virtual synchronous generator, is used for the implementation of synchronous generator behaviour in microgrids. In microgrids that include high-capacity distributed generation resources, in addition to virtual inertia, virtual damping can also lead to improvement of frequency stability of the microgrid. The purpose of the c...

Virtual Structure Based Spacecraft Formation Control with Formation Feedback

Formation control for multiple vehicles has become an active research area in recent years. Generally there are three approaches to this problem, namely leaderfollowing, behavioral, and virtual structure approaches. In this paper, formation control ideas for multiple spacecraft using virtual structure approach are presented. If there is no formation feedback from spacecraft to the virtual struc...

Social Communication Behaviors of Virtual Leaders

Opinion formation in networked societies with strong leaders

Recent studies show that many types of human social activities, from scientific collaborations to sexual contacts, can be understood in terms of complex network of interactions. Such networking paradigm allows to model many aspects of social behaviour with relatively simple computer models. The present work investigates the influence of single leaders on opinion formation within simulations of ...