Journal
AUTOMATICA
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 832-840Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2014.02.002
Keywords
Attitude control; Distributed control; Network topologies; Nonlinear systems; Nonlinear control
Funding
- Swedish National Space Technology Research Programme (NRFP)
- Swedish Research Council (VR)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61174071]
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [DPI2009-08126, DPI2012-32100]
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This paper addresses the attitude synchronization problem in multi-agent systems with directed and switching interconnection topologies. Two cases for the synchronization problem are discussed under different assumptions about the measurable information. In the first case the agents can measure their rotations relative to a global reference coordinate frame, whilst in the second case they can only measure the relative rotations between each other. Two intuitive distributed control laws based on the axis-angle representations of the rotations are proposed for the two cases, respectively. The invariance of convex balls in SO(3) is guaranteed. Moreover, attitude synchronization is ensured under the well-known mild switching assumptions, the joint strong connection for the first case and joint quasi-strong connection for the second case. To show the effectiveness of the proposed control schemes, illustrative examples are provided. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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