Energy-Aware Coverage Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Control Barrier Function

Geo-hazards have become one of the main disasters endangering the safety of people's lives and property in the world. In order to improve the early warning of disasters, a persistent monitoring method of multi-agent systems is proposed in this work. To ensure that the agent's energy is never exhausted, the set invariance constraint is included in the optimization problem. The goal is to minimize the difference between the actual control input of the robot and the nominal control input corresponding to the task to be performed. Moreover, the control barrier function (CBF) is used to transform the forward invariance of a subset of the robot state space into a control input constraint. The coverage control method in an uncertain environment is verified by numerical simulation. This work provides new insights into effective monitoring and early warning of geo-hazards.