This paper deals with robust and fault tolerant controls of wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) in formation. The robust approach is based on output feedback nonlinear H∞ control. The fault tolerant approach is based on output feedback H∞ control of Markovian jump linear systems to ensure stability of the formation when one of the robots is lost during the coordinated motion. The coordination is performed with the robots following a leader, and any robot of the formation can assume the leadership randomly. The mobile robots exchange informations according to a pre-specified communication directed graph (digraph).
Formation Control; Mobile Robots; Nonlinear H∞ Control; Markovian Control
