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A verified hierarchical control architecture for co‐ordinated multi‐vehicle operations
Author(s) -
Borges de Sousa João,
Johansson Karl H.,
Silva Jorge,
Speranzon Alberto
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of adaptive control and signal processing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1115
pISSN - 0890-6327
DOI - 10.1002/acs.920
Subject(s) - architecture , control (management) , controller (irrigation) , field (mathematics) , control engineering , computer science , engineering , embedded system , artificial intelligence , art , mathematics , pure mathematics , agronomy , visual arts , biology
A layered control architecture for executing multi‐vehicle team co‐ordination algorithms is presented along with the specifications for team behaviour. The control architecture consists of three layers: team control, vehicle supervision and maneuver control. It is shown that the controller implementation is consistent with the system specification on the desired team behaviour. Computer simulations with accurate models of autonomous underwater vehicles illustrate the overall approach in the co‐ordinated search for the minimum of a scalar field. The co‐ordinated search is based on the simplex optimization algorithm. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.