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    Area of Science:

    • Robotics
    • Control Theory
    • Decentralized Systems

    Background:

    • Multirobot systems require effective coordination for decentralized tasks.
    • Existing strategies often focus on single-point rendezvous, limiting applications.
    • Need for strategies adaptable to dynamic environments and fault tolerance.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • Introduce a coordinate-free rendezvous control strategy for multirobot systems.
    • Enable robots to gather at multiple, dynamic locations (multipoint rendezvous).
    • Address practical challenges like limited robot speeds and environmental obstacles.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a decentralized control strategy based on a connected interaction graph hierarchy.
    • Implemented a novel approach for dynamic rendezvous point determination.
    • Algorithm designed for fault tolerance, handling robot failures and link disruptions.

    Main Results:

    • Guaranteed convergence of robots to designated rendezvous points.
    • Maintained system connectivity throughout the rendezvous process.
    • Demonstrated effectiveness in obstacle-rich environments with limited robot speeds.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed coordinate-free strategy enables efficient and robust multipoint rendezvous for multirobot systems.
    • The approach optimizes energy consumption and handles real-world constraints.
    • Experimental validation on the Robotarium testbed confirms the strategy's practical applicability.