Laplacian cooperative attitude control of multiple rigid bodies

Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Panagiotis Tsiotras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

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Abstract

Motivated by the fact that linear controllers can stabilize the rotational motion of a rigid body, we propose in this paper a control strategy that exploits graph theoretic tools for cooperative control of multiple rigid bodies. The control objective is to stabilize the system to a configuration where the rigid bodies will have a common orientation and common angular velocity. The control law respects the limited information each rigid body has with respect to the rest of the team. Specifically, each rigid body is equipped with a control law that is based on the Laplacian matrix of the communication graph, which encodes the limited communication capabilities between the team members. Similarly to the linear case, the convergence of the multi-agent system relies on the connectivity of the communication graph.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, ISIC
Pages3064-3069
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
EventJoint 2006 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Computer-Aided Control Systems Design Symposium (CACSD) and International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) - Munich, Germany
Duration: Oct 4 2006Oct 6 2006

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control - Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceJoint 2006 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Computer-Aided Control Systems Design Symposium (CACSD) and International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC)
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period10/4/0610/6/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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