Distributed Game Strategy for Formation Flying of Multiple Spacecraft With Disturbance Rejection

This article investigates a distributed game strategy for formation control of multispacecraft subjected to nonlinear dynamics and J(2) perturbations. In the proposed problem, each spacecraft is devoted to minimize its own performance cost using only local information, whereas the overall formation system attempts to seek an optimized decision based on communication topology. Therefore, in our scheme, the formation control problem can be treated using a Nash strategy. A worst case Nash strategy is proposed against the disturbance defined as a player, and we prove rigorously that an open-loop Nash equilibrium exists in the underlying problem. Then, a distributed terminal state observer is introduced to facilitate the local implementation of the proposed Nash strategy. Simulation results verified the performance of the proposed scheme.

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This article investigates a distributed game strategy for formation control of multispacecraft subjected to nonlinear dynamics and J(2) perturbations. A worst case Nash strategy is proposed against the disturbance defined as a player, and it is rigorously proved that an open-loop Nash equilibrium exists in the underlying problem. The performance of the proposed scheme is verified through simulation results.