TY - GEN
T1 - Formation Control for Thermal Multi-agent Systems
AU - Lopez-Gonzalez, Hector
AU - Hernandez-Martinez, Eduardo G.
AU - Portillo-Velez, Rogelio De J.
AU - Ferreira-Vazquez, Enrique D.
AU - Flores-Godoy, Jose J.
AU - Fernandez-Anaya, Guillermo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Inspired by the consensus theory applied to thermodynamic systems, this paper proposes an extension to create a temperature-based formation scheme. A group of thermal agents is modeled as first-order linear systems with a predefined communication topology. Then, a control strategy is designed to converge to a desired formation pattern which imposes the inter-agent relative temperatures obtained from a numerical solution of the Poisson's Heat Equation. The performance of the approach is evaluated by numerical simulations and an experimental setup composed by three flexible thermoelectric devices which converge exponentially in a group behaviour to its relative temperature offsets.
AB - Inspired by the consensus theory applied to thermodynamic systems, this paper proposes an extension to create a temperature-based formation scheme. A group of thermal agents is modeled as first-order linear systems with a predefined communication topology. Then, a control strategy is designed to converge to a desired formation pattern which imposes the inter-agent relative temperatures obtained from a numerical solution of the Poisson's Heat Equation. The performance of the approach is evaluated by numerical simulations and an experimental setup composed by three flexible thermoelectric devices which converge exponentially in a group behaviour to its relative temperature offsets.
KW - Formation control
KW - consensus
KW - multi-agent
KW - thermodynamics
KW - thermoelectric device
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124339056&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/URUCON53396.2021.9647108
DO - 10.1109/URUCON53396.2021.9647108
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85124339056
T3 - 2021 IEEE URUCON, URUCON 2021
SP - 390
EP - 394
BT - 2021 IEEE URUCON, URUCON 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE URUCON, URUCON 2021
Y2 - 24 November 2021 through 26 November 2021
ER -
