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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Cooperative control"”.
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Topics in Cooperative Control
… thesis are networked dynamic systems and related cooperative control problems. We shall contribute a number of technical results to the stability theory of switched positive systems, and present a new cooperative control paradigm that leads to several cooperative control schemes which allow …
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Cooperative Control of Miniature Air Vehicles
Cooperative control for miniature air vehicles (MAVs) is currently a highly researched topic. There are many application for which MAVs are well suited, including fire monitoring, surveillance and reconaissance, and search and rescue missions. All of these applications can be carried out more …
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Distributed cooperative control architectures for automated manufacturing systems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Cooperative control of multi-agent systems with time-delays
… REQUEST.] In this dissertation, we designed two cooperative control algorithms for multi-agent systems with time-delays. The first one is Robust Sliding-Mode Cooperative Control for Multiple Time-Delay Systems with Model Uncertainties and Disturbance, in which, it designed a sliding mode …
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Human Interfaces for Cooperative Control of Multiple Vehicle Systems
… and spatial information is used to achieve cooperative timing at a minimum cost. Specifically, coordination variables and functions are used to plan trajectories for a team of UGVs that satisfy timing constraints. The importance of properly representing information to users, allowing them to …
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Cooperative control of two active spacecraft during proximity operations
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989.
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Applying cooperative control techniques to improve performance of wind farms
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Cooperative control of autonomous mobile robot collectives in payload transportation
… paradigm is proposed for behavior-based control of a homogeneous collection of autonomous mobile robots in the lifting and lowering processes of payload transportation. Unlike previous applications of behavior-based control to payload transportation, we examine control of a payload in a …
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Consensus Seeking, Formation Keeping, and Trajectory Tracking in Multiple Vehicle Cooperative Control
<p>Cooperative control problems for multiple vehicle systems can be categorized as either formation control problems with applications to mobile robots, unmanned air vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, satellites, aircraft, spacecraft, and automated highway systems, or non-formation control …
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Information Theory and Cooperative Control in Networked Multi-Agent Systems with Applications to Smart Grid
… focuses on information theoretic aspects of and cooperative control techniques in networked multi-agent systems (NMAS) with communication constraints. In the first part of the dissertation, information theoretic limitations of tracking problems in networked control systems, especially …
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Experimental Validation of a New Distributed Cooperative Control Algorithm for Multi-agent Systems with Switching Communication Topologies and Time-Delays
… practical experimental results to demonstrate a control law for consensus of multiagent systems with switching topologies and time delays. The nonlinear control law utilizes discontinuous cooperative control gains and uses contraction mapping to achieve consensus of multiagent systems. The …
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Event-triggering architectures for adaptive control of uncertain dynamical systems
… design and implementation of networked adaptive control systems to reduce the wireless network utilization while guaranteeing system stability in the presence of system uncertainties. Specifically, the design and analysis of state feedback adaptive control systems over wireless networks using …
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Decentralized Control of Multiple UAVs for Perimeter and Target Surveillance
… unified framework into which all (or even most) cooperative control problems fall. Five factors that affect the development of cooperative control algorithms are objective coupling, communication, completeness, robustness, and efficiency. We classify cooperative control algorithms by these …
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SMART INTERSECTIONS: COOPERATIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR LONGER BATTERY LIFE OF COMMUNICANT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
… and communication technologies have enabled cooperative traffic control at signal-free intersections, which can significantly improve safety of the roads and performance of urban networks. The impacts of cooperative control of traffic on the battery life of communicant autonomous vehicles …
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Switching observer design, consensus management, and time-delayed control with applications for rigid-body attitude dynamics
… to rigid body attitude stabilization and control. The problems addressed result in theoretical development for the topics of cooperative control, delayed feedback, and state estimation, through the formulation of a novel class of switching observers. In the area of consensus management for …
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Distributed Control and Information Exchange for Improved Flight Autonomy of Hybrid Powertrain Drones
… exchange through distributed or decentralized control of the battery can outperform centralized powertrain control, which treats the battery as a disturbance in a component-isolated approach. The core contributions of this thesis include developing a novel modeling approach that integrates …
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Stochastic Motion Planning for Applications in Subsea Survey and Area Protection
… addresses high-level path planning and cooperative control for autonomous vehicles. The objective of our work is to closely and rigorously incorporate classication and detection performance into path planning algorithms, which is not addressed with typical approaches found in literature. …
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A coordinated UAV deployment based on stereovision reconnaissance for low risk water assessment
… the height of a wave and secondly, achieving cooperative control of two UAVs. Two identical cameras utilising a stereovision approach were developed for capturing three-dimensional information of the wave distribution in a non-invasive manner. As with most innovations, laboratory based testing …
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Modeling and Simulation of Vehicle Performance in a UAV Swarm Using Horizon Simulation Framework
… The simulated swarm utilizes a decentralized cooperative control approach to command the assets through the use of digital pheromones and a pheromone map. Each vehicle operates at steady-state flight conditions of 36 m/s with an altitude of 1,800 m, and utilize an LQR set-point controller to …
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Nonlinear control and synchronization of multiple Lagrangian systems with application to tethered formation flight spacecraft
… using contraction theory, with applications to cooperative control of multi-agent systems and synchronization of interconnected dynamics such as tethered formation flight. Inspired by stable combinations of biological systems, contraction nonlinear stability theory provides a systematic method …
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