%0 Journal Article
%@ 2168-2267
%A Pham, Duy Hung
%A Tran, Quang Vinh
%A Ngo, Trung Dung
%D 2019
%F SisLab:3467
%I IEEE
%J IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
%K Robot sensing systems;Decentralized control;Maintenance engineering;Mobile robots;Estimation;Behavioral control;distributed connectivity control;distributed node control;global network integrity preservation;hierarchical distributed control (HDC);local connectivity minimization strategy;multirobot systems (MRSs)
%P 1-14
%T Hierarchical Distributed Control for Global Network Integrity Preservation in Multirobot Systems
%U https://eprints.uet.vnu.edu.vn/eprints/id/eprint/3467/
%X In this paper, we address a novel hierarchical distributed control (HDC) strategy for networked multirobot systems (MRSs). This strategy is developed on a geometric approach without requiring estimation of algebraic connectivity. It is originally based upon behavioral control, but upgraded by distributed node control with a mobility constraint for global network integrity preservation and distributed connectivity control with a local connectivity minimization strategy for network coverage expansion. Thanks to properties of HDC, a networked MRS is capable of achieving high performance with cooperative tasks. We have examined and evaluated our proposed method in both simulations with up to 100 simulated robots and real-world experiments with up to 14 real robots.