Title
Differential Geometric Approach To Trajectory Planning: Cooperative Transport By A Team Of Autonomous Marine Vehicles
Abstract
In this paper we addressed the cooperative transport problem for a team of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) towing a single buoyant load. We consider the dynamics of the constrained system and decompose the cooperative transport problem into a collection of subproblems. Each subproblem consists of an ASV and load pair where each ASV is attached to the load at the same point. Since the system states evolve on a smooth manifold, we use the tools from differential geometry to model the holonomic constraint arising from the cooperative transport problem and the non-holonomic constraints arising from the ASV dynamics. We then synthesize distributed feedback control strategies using the proposed mathematical modeling framework to enable the team transport the load on a desired trajectory. We experimentally validate the proposed strategy using a team of micro ASVs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.23919/acc.2018.8430951
2018 ANNUAL AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ACC)
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
abs/1805.00959
0743-1619
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hadi Hajieghrary111.70
Dhanushka Kularatne201.69
M. Ani Hsieh338234.69