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    • Robotics
    • Control Systems Engineering
    • Artificial Intelligence

    Background:

    • Coordinated control of multiple mobile robots is crucial for complex tasks.
    • Existing formation control methods face challenges in real-time optimization and adaptability.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a robust and efficient nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) strategy for multi-robot formations.
    • To enhance formation control by integrating neural-dynamic optimization for online problem-solving.

    Main Methods:

    • A model-based monocular vision system to track the leader robot's position.
    • A separation-bearing-orientation scheme (SBOS) to maintain leader-follower relationships.
    • Neural-dynamic optimization using prime-dual neural networks to solve NMPC-generated quadratic programming problems.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed NMPC scheme effectively maintains desired leader-follower relationships during formation maneuvers.
    • The neural-dynamic optimization approach successfully finds global optimal solutions for constrained quadratic programming problems.
    • Experimental validation with physical mobile robots confirms the approach's effectiveness.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed neural-dynamic optimization-based NMPC offers a superior solution for nonholonomic mobile robot formation control.
    • The integration of prime-dual neural networks enables efficient online optimization, outperforming existing methods.
    • The approach is experimentally validated, demonstrating its practical applicability.