TY - GEN
T1 - Formation control of multiple marine vehicles based passivity-control design
AU - Ghommam, Jawhar
AU - Mnif, Faïçal
AU - Calvo, Oscar
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper addresses the problem of coordination path following control of multiple autonomous vehicles. Stated briefly, the problem consists in steering a group of vehicles along a specified paths, while holding a desired inter-ship formation pattern. Path-following for each vehicle amounts to reducing an appropriately defined geometric error to zero. We first show a passivity property for the path following system and, next, combine this with a passivity-based synchronization algorithm developed in [2] to coordinate the vehicles along their paths. Vehicle coordination is achieved by adjusting the speed of each vehicle along its path according to information exchanged on the positions of a subset of the other vehicles, as determined by the communication topology adopted. Global stability and convergence of the closed-loop system are guaranteed.
AB - This paper addresses the problem of coordination path following control of multiple autonomous vehicles. Stated briefly, the problem consists in steering a group of vehicles along a specified paths, while holding a desired inter-ship formation pattern. Path-following for each vehicle amounts to reducing an appropriately defined geometric error to zero. We first show a passivity property for the path following system and, next, combine this with a passivity-based synchronization algorithm developed in [2] to coordinate the vehicles along their paths. Vehicle coordination is achieved by adjusting the speed of each vehicle along its path according to information exchanged on the positions of a subset of the other vehicles, as determined by the communication topology adopted. Global stability and convergence of the closed-loop system are guaranteed.
KW - Cooperative control
KW - Marine vehicle
KW - Passivity theory
KW - Path following
KW - Serret- frenet
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U2 - 10.1109/SSD.2009.4956697
DO - 10.1109/SSD.2009.4956697
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650527009
SN - 9781424443468
T3 - 2009 6th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, SSD 2009
BT - 2009 6th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, SSD 2009
T2 - 2009 6th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, SSD 2009
Y2 - 23 March 2009 through 26 March 2009
ER -