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Review of attitude consensus of multiple spacecraft

Show Author's Information Ti Chen1( ),  Jinjun Shan2,  Hao Wen1,  Shidong Xu1
State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto M3J 1P3, Canada
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attitude consensus, networked spacecraft, communication graph, multi-agent systems (MAS), attitude synchronization
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A group of cooperative agents can finish complicated missions that are difficult for a large machine. In the past two decades, spacecraft attitude coordination has attracted significant research attention owing to its wide potential applications. This paper presents a survey of recent research progress on the spacecraft attitude consensus problem, paying particular attention to the papers published in major aerospace, dynamics, automation, and robotics journals since 2015. Attitude consensus concepts for centralized, decentralized, and distributed cases are reviewed. This overview summarizes results on system dynamics and consensus algorithms based on frequently used attitude representations, such as Euler angles, modified Rodrigues parameters, unit quaternions, and rotation matrices. Studies conducted under complicated operating conditions are also covered. Experimental results on attitude consensus are discussed. In the final section, the main conclusions are drawn and several potential research directions are provided.


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Review of attitude consensus of multiple spacecraft

Show Author's information Ti Chen1( ), Jinjun Shan2, Hao Wen1, Shidong Xu1
State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto M3J 1P3, Canada

Abstract

A group of cooperative agents can finish complicated missions that are difficult for a large machine. In the past two decades, spacecraft attitude coordination has attracted significant research attention owing to its wide potential applications. This paper presents a survey of recent research progress on the spacecraft attitude consensus problem, paying particular attention to the papers published in major aerospace, dynamics, automation, and robotics journals since 2015. Attitude consensus concepts for centralized, decentralized, and distributed cases are reviewed. This overview summarizes results on system dynamics and consensus algorithms based on frequently used attitude representations, such as Euler angles, modified Rodrigues parameters, unit quaternions, and rotation matrices. Studies conducted under complicated operating conditions are also covered. Experimental results on attitude consensus are discussed. In the final section, the main conclusions are drawn and several potential research directions are provided.

Keywords: attitude consensus, networked spacecraft, communication graph, multi-agent systems (MAS), attitude synchronization

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Received: 27 February 2022
Accepted: 16 April 2022
Published: 09 July 2022
Issue date: December 2022

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 12102174, the Science and Technology on Space Intelligent Control Laboratory (Grant No. 2021-JCJQ-LB-010-17), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. NP2022301), and the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and astronautics) (Grant No. MCMS-I-0122K01).

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