A coordination architecture for spacecraft formation control

By R. Beard, J. Lawton, Fred Y. Hadaegh. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2001

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Mechanical Engineering

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Sliding-Mode Formation Control for Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robots (2008, neutral): “Various control strategies for mobile robot formations have been reported in the literature, including behaviorbased methods [3], [4], virtual structure techniques [2], [5], and leader–follower schemes [1], [6]–[9].”
A survey of spacecraft formation flying guidance and control. Part II: control (2004, background): “Similarly, Cyclic algorithms can be designed that use only local information [60], [67], though formationwide coordinating information may be needed to achieve certain global actions [13], [115].”
Application of Synchronization to Formation Flying Spacecraft: Lagrangian Approach (2008, background): “In [16], a new coordination architecture for both attitude and translational dynamicswas proposed to incorporate leader–following, behavioral, and virtual-structure approaches.”
Opportunities and challenges with autonomous micro aerial vehicles (2012, background): “The problem of designing decentralized controllers for trajectory tracking for three-dimensional rigid structures is now fairly well understood (Beard et al., 2001; Egerstedt and Hu, 2001).”
Closed-Loop Dynamics of Cooperative Vehicle Formations With Parallel Estimators and Communication (2007, background): “Various alternative architectures have been considered including local/supervisory hybrids [21], [22] and local controllers connected via a communication network [23], [24].”
Multi-vehicle Flocking Control with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Method (2018, background): “Some of the MVS collective behaviors, such as formation [5] and flocking [6] are extensively studied in area of control recently with both theoretical analysis and experimental results.”
Controllability of Multi-Agent Systems from a Graph-Theoretic Perspective (2009, background): “, formation control [3, 10, 13], consensus or agreement [25, 29, 30], and flocking [32, 35], share the same distributive flavor as the rendezvous problem.”
Time-Varying Formation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Theories and Applications (2015, background): “However, as pointed out in [20], leader–follower, behavior, and virtual structure-based formation control approaches have their own strengths and weaknesses.”
A Decentralized Cooperative Control Scheme With Obstacle Avoidance for a Team of Mobile Robots (2014, methodology): “Although most approaches used the virtual structure which cannot change the configuration of the formation [6], [14], [15], in the proposed approach in this paper, each mobile robot finds its position in the formation autonomously on a regular polygon.”
Adaptive Dynamic Surface Control for Formations of Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Uncertain Dynamics (2013, methodology): “2181513 [1]–[4], virtual structure method [5], behavioral approach [6], [7], graph theory-based method [8]–[11], artificial potential mechanism [12]–[14], and so on.”
Formation control: a review and a new consideration (2005, background): “Using input/output feedback linearizaiton, a controller can be designed so that ld12 and ψ d 12 can exponentially convergence to the desired value.”
Time-varying formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles with switching interaction topologies (2014, background): “In the past decade, many results on UAV formation have been proposed based on leader-follower, virtual structure and behavior approaches (see [4]–[8] and references therein).”
Distributed attitude alignment in spacecraft formation flying (2007, result): “Recent results have been reported in References [1–8], to name a few.”
Flocking of Multiple Mobile Robots Based on Backstepping (2011, background): “Virtual structure for cooperative control of multiple robots was considered in [3], [21], [27], [33].”