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    Area of Science:

    • Robotics
    • Control Systems
    • Artificial Intelligence

    Background:

    • Multirobot systems require sophisticated control for complex tasks.
    • Coordinated motion and collision avoidance are critical challenges in multirobot coordination.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a novel methodology for achieving complex dynamic behaviors in partitioned multirobot systems.
    • To enable dependent robots to solve tracking problems using independent robots as control inputs.
    • To integrate collision avoidance with tracking control in a non-conflicting manner.

    Main Methods:

    • Partitioning the multirobot system into dependent and independent subgroups.
    • Utilizing independent robots' motion as control input for dependent robots.
    • Employing a null space-based behavioral approach for collision avoidance and tracking control integration.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully demonstrated coordinated tracking of arbitrarily defined setpoint trajectories by dependent robots.
    • Formally proven the avoidance of collisions within the multirobot system.
    • Validated the proposed methodology through extensive simulations and experiments on physical robots.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed null space-based behavioral approach effectively integrates tracking and collision avoidance for multirobot systems.
    • The methodology enables safe and coordinated execution of complex dynamic behaviors.
    • The approach shows practical applicability and robustness, confirmed by experimental validation.