Research Summaries

Back Cooperative Control of Multi-Body Dynamical Systems

Fiscal Year 2014
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s) Ross, Isaac M.
Sponsor Secretary of the Air Force (Air Force)
Summary The objectives of this proposal are to advance optimal control techniques for the cooperative control of multi-body dynamical systems. In prior years, under the sponsorship of SSPO, the Control and Optimization Group at NPS has developed new methods for failure recovery (US Patents (pending) 13/967,263 and 13/901,444). It turns out that these new ideas can also be applied to efficient control of multi-body dynamical systems. Consequently, the long-term objectives of this proposal are to advance these ideas towards the goal of ground and flight implementations, while the CY14 objectives are to explore an application of these methods to efficiently slew one body attached to another body in such a way as to impart minimal motion to the second body. This project will support the thesis work of USAF CAPT Brian Bishop who is scheduled to graduate in Dec 2014.
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