eprintid: 3981 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 261 dir: disk0/00/00/39/81 datestamp: 2020-07-13 10:13:18 lastmod: 2020-07-13 10:13:53 status_changed: 2020-07-13 10:13:18 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Pham, Duy Hung creators_name: Tran, Quang Vinh creators_name: Ngo, Trung Dung creators_id: hungpd@vnu.edu.vn creators_id: vinhtq@vnu.edu.vn creators_id: dungnt@ieee.org title: Hierarchical Distributed Control for Global Network Integrity Preservation in Multirobot Systems ispublished: pub subjects: ElectronicsandComputerEngineering divisions: fac_fet abstract: 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. date: 2020-03 date_type: published publisher: IEEE official_url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8716301 id_number: 10.1109/TCYB.2019.2913326 full_text_status: none publication: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics volume: 50 number: 3 pagerange: 1278-1291 refereed: TRUE issn: 2168-2267 citation: Pham, Duy Hung and Tran, Quang Vinh and Ngo, Trung Dung (2020) Hierarchical Distributed Control for Global Network Integrity Preservation in Multirobot Systems. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 50 (3). pp. 1278-1291. ISSN 2168-2267