Team Cooperation in a Network of Multi-Vehicle Unmanned Systems

This book provides a synthesis-based methodology for team cooperation. It introduces a consensus-protocol minimized performance index and offers comparisons for use of proper indices in measuring team performance.

Team Cooperation in a Network of Multi-Vehicle Unmanned Systems develops a framework for modeling and control of a network of multi-agent unmanned systems in a cooperative manner and with consideration of non-ideal and practical considerations. The main focus of this book is the development of synthesis-based algorithms rather than on conventional analysis-based approaches to the team cooperation, specifically the team consensus problems. The authors provide a set of modified design-based consensus algorithms whose optimality is verified through introduction of performance indices.

Provides synthesis-based methodology for team cooperation Introduces a consensus-protocol optimized performance index Offers comparisons for use of proper indices in measuring team performance Analyzes and predicts performance of previously designed consensus algorithms Analyses and predicts team behavior in the presence of non-ideal considerations such as actuator anomalies and faults as well as the evolutions in the structure of the information exchange

Autorentext

Dr. Khashayar Khorasani, Concordia University, kash@ece.concordia.ca

Dr. Elham Semsar-Kazerooni, University of Toronto, elham.semsar.kazerooni@utoronto.ca

Inhalt

Introduction.- Background.- SemiDecentralized Optimal Consensus Strategies.- Non-Ideal Considerations for Semi-Decentralized Optimal Team Cooperation.- Linear Matrix Inequalities in the Team Cooperation Problem.- Conclusions and Future Work.- Appendix A: Proofs.