Pose Synchronization for Semi-Autonomous Dynamic Robotic Swarms with a Passivity-Short Human Operator

This paper presents a pose synchronization method for semi-autonomous dynamic robotic swarms with a passivityshort human operator. In the human-robot network, a human operator sends a command signal to and receives visual information from only a part of the robotic group. In this setting, the proposed dynamic control scheme achieves not only pose synchronization of all mobile robots but also convergence to the reference pose that the human operator specifies. The main advantage of the proposed method is to guarantee convergence of not only the position but also the orientation to the reference ones in the human-robot network. Finally, we provide human-in-the-loop simulation results through the human operation using a tablet PC to illustrate the performance of the proposed control method.