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Erschienen in: Evolutionary Intelligence 2/2014

01.08.2014 | Special Issue

An evolutionary robotics approach for the distributed control of satellite formations

verfasst von: Dario Izzo, Luís F. Simões, Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Erschienen in: Evolutionary Intelligence | Ausgabe 2/2014

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Abstract

We propose and study a decentralized formation flying control architecture based on the evolutionary robotic technique. We develop our control architecture for the MIT SPHERES robotic platform on board the International Space Station and we show how it is able to achieve micrometre and microradians precision at the path planning level. Our controllers are homogeneous across satellites and do not make use of labels (i.e. all satellites can be exchanged at any time). The evolutionary process is able to produce homogeneous controllers able to plan, with high precision, for the acquisition and maintenance of any triangular formation.

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Though not strictly an “evolutionary algorithm”, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) belongs to the same general class of metaheuristics, or population-based stochastic search procedures.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
An evolutionary robotics approach for the distributed control of satellite formations
verfasst von
Dario Izzo
Luís F. Simões
Guido C. H. E. de Croon
Publikationsdatum
01.08.2014
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Evolutionary Intelligence / Ausgabe 2/2014
Print ISSN: 1864-5909
Elektronische ISSN: 1864-5917
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-014-0111-9

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