The expanded role of unmanned systems in military and civilian applications has introduced interesting new questions in multi-vehicle coordination and communication. The goal of this research is to derive steering algorithms utilizing event- and self-triggered control,capable of driving vehicles to a particular formation while simultaneously coordinating inter-agent communication instances (i.e. surfacing times). This goal is broken up into two segments: multi-vehicle control and communication control. By leveraging previous work in tracking control, we show the ability to combine kinematic and vehicle dynamic controllers to create a model that easily adapts to changing vehicle dynamics and time-varying desired configurations. Target and trajectory tracking are demonstrated, both of which are useful in conducting autonomous missions. Additionally, we present a permutation algorithm to optimally assign vehicles to formation positions based on proximity. This work combines the multi-vehicle and communication-coordinating control to present a framework capable of steering a multivehicle system to a time-varying configuration without relying on all-to-all communication. The contributions of this work may enhance the capability of underwater sampling by increasing formation precision subject to intermittent communication.


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    Title :

    Communication Dependent Control of Multi-Vehicle Formations


    Contributors:
    A. M. Sims (author)

    Publication date :

    2016


    Size :

    35 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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