A decentralized scheme for spacecraft formation flying via the virtual structure approach

By Wei Ren, R. Beard. Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, 2003., 2003

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications

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Asymptotic Tracking Control for Spacecraft Formation Flying with Decentralized Collision Avoidance (2015, methodology): “Here a tracking control scheme for spacecraft formation flying using a virtual leader [2, 6, 14] is proposed, where the spacecraft are modeled as rigid bodies and are required to maneuver large ranges of motion in three-dimensional Euclidean space while tracking desired trajectories.”
Multi-vehicle consensus with a time-varying reference state (2007, background): “Information consensus has applications in multi-vehicle rendezvous [10,12], formation control [3,5], flocking [15,24], attitude alignment [18], decentralized task assignment [1], sensor fusion [17,22,27], etc.”
Distributed receding horizon control for multi-vehicle formation stabilization (2006, neutral): “[14], Dunbar and Murray [7], Ren and Beard [15], and Leonard and Fiorelli [10].”
Distributed coordination architecture for multi-robot formation control (2008, background): “Keywords: Formation control; Consensus algorithm; Coordination; Multi-robot systems”
Coordination Variables and Consensus Building in Multiple Vehicle Systems (2004, background): “For example, in the context of leader-following approaches (c.f. [22]), the group leader’s trajectory can act as the coordination variable for the whole group.”
Application of Synchronization to Formation Flying Spacecraft: Lagrangian Approach (2008, methodology): “A decentralized control law using the virtual-structure approach was presented for a potentially large number of spacecraft in [17].”
A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination (2005, background): “Similarly, the bi-directional communication topology is used in [37] to synchronize instantiations of group level information, the formation state, among multiple spacecraft.”
Decentralized control of vehicle formations (2005, methodology): “[11,20] contain a special case of the results presented here (among other results).”
A Survey of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Formation: Performance, Formation Control, and Communication Capability (2021, background): “AUVs in a virtual structure strategy maintain a geometric shape with fixed relative ranges and bearing [103].”
Distributed multi‐vehicle coordinated control via local information exchange (2007, methodology): “For example, information consensus for dynamically evolving information was applied by Ren and Beard [9] to formation flying of multiple space-based interferometers.”
Formation control: a review and a new consideration (2005, background): “There are many issues need to be considered when designing a distributed controller for mobile robot formation, such as the stability of the formation, controllability of different formation patterns, safety and uncertainties in formations.”
Swarm Formation Control Utilizing Elliptical Surfaces and Limiting Functions (2009, background): “In the virtual-structure approach, the entire formation is treated as a single rigid body, and agents maintain a specific geometry among each other [1]–[4].”
On Consensus Algorithms for Double-Integrator Dynamics (2007, background): “In particular, formation keeping strategies are addressed in [7], [9] for multi-vehicle formation maneuvers under the assumption of a bidirectional ring interaction graph.”