On coordinated control strategies for networked dynamic control systems - an application to AUVs

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2002

Authors

João Borges de Sousa (Author) FEUP; Fernando Lobo Pereira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of International Workshop on Generalized Solutions in Control Problems (GSCP2002)

Generalized Solutions in Control Problems (International Symposium GSCP-2002)

Pereslavl-Zalesskii, Russia, 27 a 31 de Agosto de 2002

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): The specification and design of coordinated control strategies for networked vehicles and systems is discussed. A strategy to find the local minimum of an oceanographic scalar field with networked autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) is presented. The strategy consists in coordinating the motions of the AUVs to implement a modified version of the simplex optimization algorithm. In the original algorithm, the scalar field is given by a function. In the modified version, the scalar field is given by the phenomenon itself. The AUVs sample the phenomenon to calculate the directions of descent, and to minimize the phenomenon along each direction of descent. The strategy is discussed in the more general context of coordination and control of networked vehicles and systems.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 15