Title :
Formation stability with limited information exchange between vehicles
Author :
Ketema, Yohannes ; Balas, Gary
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Aerosp. Eng. & Mech., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract :
We study the role of information flow, and especially the rate of update of information among the vehicles in a formation, on the stability of the formation. The problem is initially posed in the general nonlinear context and a linear special case is studied in detail. We present numerical examples that illustrate the results. We also study briefly the effect of imprecise communications on the stability of a formation.
Keywords :
distributed control; linear systems; nonlinear systems; stability; vehicles; formation stability; imprecise communications; information exchange; information flow; linear case; nonlinear context; numerical examples; vehicles; Aerospace engineering; Communication system control; Context; Ear; Equations; Mobile communication; Stability criteria; Topology; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicle dynamics;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7896-2
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2003.1238953
