Project Description

This project is to develop reliable and robust control architectures and algorithms for networks of autonomous aerial and ground vehicles. The aim is to develop control laws that have low sensitivity to noisy and lossy data communication among vehicles, that are scalable in terms of number of vehicles, and that have the ability to handle discrete transitions in the network, such as formation reconfiguration, addition or loss of vehicles from the formation, etc. Applications of this work include undersea and planetary exploration, search and rescue, air traffic control, and control of sensor networks. Both theoretical and experimental issues are being investigated.

Start Date: 17-Aug-2005
Duration: 5 years

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Reliable and Robust Control of Formations of Unmanned Vehicles
The University of Illinois and The Boeing Company

Revised: 2-19-07

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In this simulation a Decentralized LQR Tracking controller is demonstrated.