Underwater swarm formation control with distributed beamforming

Junkai Wang; Fumin Zhang; John E. Kleider; Chris Steenhoek

doi:10.1117/12.2664692

12 June 2023 Underwater swarm formation control with distributed beamforming

Junkai Wang, Fumin Zhang, John E. Kleider, Chris Steenhoek

Proceedings Volume 12544, Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2023; 1254405 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2664692
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2023, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are gaining increasing attention due to their promising potential for underwater multi-agent tasks in both military and civil applications. Formation control for AUVs, as the basic problem in cooperation of multiple AUVs, is gaining increasing attention due to the unique difficulties compared with formation control for surface and aerial vehicles. In this paper, we propose a formation control algorithm for underactuated AUVs while tracking a given trajectory. The proposed strategy, which leverages a leader-follower approach, is used to reduce the complexity of the control algorithm. During the formation control process, each agent tracks the same trajectory formed by pre-set waypoints with constant surge velocity by using lower-level PID controllers. Simulations are conducted to validate the proposed formation control algorithm. The AUVs’ position coordinates are fed to a distributed beamforming system to demonstrate the ability to form AUV swarm coherent beams.

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Junkai Wang, Fumin Zhang, John E. Kleider, and Chris Steenhoek "Underwater swarm formation control with distributed beamforming", Proc. SPIE 12544, Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2023, 1254405 (12 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2664692

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