Formation feedback control for multiple spacecraft via virtual structures

By Wei Ren, R. Beard. 2004

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

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].”
Optimal Consensus Seeking in a Network of Multiagent Systems: An LMI Approach (2010, background): “Cooperative control can be used to address various issues such as swarm analysis and flocking [3]–[7], the rendezvous problem [8], formation control [ 9 ], and agreement and consensus seeking [10]–[20].”
Stabilization of Planar Collective Motion: All-to-All Communication (2007, background): “Applications include formation control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) [1], [2] and spacecraft [3], cooperative robotics [4]–[6], and sensor networks [7], [8].”
Stabilization of Planar Collective Motion With Limited Communication (2008, background): “The various applications, which impose diverse operational constraints and performance requirements, include formation control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) [1], [2] and spacecraft [3], cooperative robotics [4] [5], and sensor networks [6], [7].”
Region-based shape control for a swarm of robots (2009, methodology): “In the virtual structure method (Egerstedt & Hu, 2001; Lewis & Tan, 1997; Ren & Beard, 2004), the entire formation is considered as a single entity and desired motion is assigned to the structure.”
Cooperative Control of Multiple Nonholonomic Mobile Agents (2008, background): “Various control strategies have been proposed, such as behavior-based [1]–[3], virtual structure [4]–[6], leader-follower [7]–[10], artificial potentials [11]–[16], and graph theoretical [17]–[20] methods.”