Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control

• Main Authors: Ren, Wei, Beard, Randal W.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Engineering
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/30306
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

The coordinated use of autonomous vehicles has an abundance of potential applications from the domestic to the hazardously toxic. Frequently the communications necessary for the productive interplay of such vehicles may be subject to limitations in range, bandwidth, noise and other causes of unreliability. Information consensus guarantees that vehicles sharing information over a network topology have a consistent view of information critical to the coordination task. Assuming only neighbor-neighbor interaction between vehicles, Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control develops distributed consensus strategies designed to ensure that the information states of all vehicles in a network converge to a common value. This approach strengthens the team, minimizing power consumption and the deleterious effects of range and other restrictions.