Author
Yaylali, DavidIssue Date
2018Keywords
Consensus ControlCooperative Control
Fractional Control
Multivehicle Consensis
Relative Orbits and Control
Second-Order Consensus
Advisor
Butcher, Eric A.
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The University of Arizona.Rights
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Cooperative control protocols can be formulated for systems comprising multiple independent agents which can share information. In this work I will consider the cooperative control problem for multi-agent systems whose agents obey second-order Newtonian dynamics. Specifically, I will explore consensus and cooperative control laws for arrangements of both free point-mass bodies and point-mass spacecraft in orbit about a celestial body. In the latter case, the linearized equations of motion for two or more bodies in orbit will be used, allowing us to frame cooperative control laws in the standard formalism of algebraic graph theory. One of the primary novelties explored in this work is the usage of non-integer order integral and derivative operators in the feedback controllers for cooperative multiagent systems. These fractional operators provide additional degrees of freedom in controller design, and therefore afford more freedom in shaping the controlled system’s trajectories. Among the main results presented in this work, we prove the stability of certain fractional consensus controllers and show that these controllers can outperform standard integer-order controllers in terms of some important performance measures.Type
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M.S.Degree Level
mastersDegree Program
Graduate CollegeAerospace Engineering