TY - GEN
T1 - Optimal reconfiguration of formation flying spacecraft decentralized approach
AU - Junge, Oliver
AU - Marsden, Jerrold E.
AU - Ober-Blöbaum, Sina
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper introduces a hierarchical, decentralized, and parallelizable method for dealing with optimization problems with many agents. It is theoretically based on a hierarchical optimization theorem that establishes the equivalence of two forms of the problem, and this idea is implemented using DMOC (Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control). The result is a method that is scalable to certain optimization problems for large numbers of agents, whereas the usual "monolithic" approach can only deal with systems with a rather small number of degrees of freedom. The method is illustrated with the example of deployment of spacecraft, motivated by the Darwin (ESA) and Terrestrial Planet Finder (NASA) missions.
AB - This paper introduces a hierarchical, decentralized, and parallelizable method for dealing with optimization problems with many agents. It is theoretically based on a hierarchical optimization theorem that establishes the equivalence of two forms of the problem, and this idea is implemented using DMOC (Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control). The result is a method that is scalable to certain optimization problems for large numbers of agents, whereas the usual "monolithic" approach can only deal with systems with a rather small number of degrees of freedom. The method is illustrated with the example of deployment of spacecraft, motivated by the Darwin (ESA) and Terrestrial Planet Finder (NASA) missions.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39549103212
SN - 1424401712
SN - 9781424401710
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
SP - 5210
EP - 5215
BT - Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, CDC
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, CDC
Y2 - 13 December 2006 through 15 December 2006
ER -