Abstract-This is a complete version of the 6-page IEEE TAC technical note [1]. In this paper, we consider the distributed surrounding of a convex target set by a group of agents with switching communication graphs. We propose a distributed controller to surround a given set with the same distance and desired projection angles specified by a complex-value adjacency matrix. Under mild connectivity assumptions, we give results in both consistent and inconsistent cases for the set surrounding in a plane. Also, we provide sufficient conditions for the multi-agent coordination when the convex set contains only the origin.
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