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Distributed Attitude Estimation for Multi-agent Systems on $SO(3)$

Systems and Control 2024-05-17 v3 Systems and Control

Abstract

We consider the problem of distributed attitude estimation of multi-agent systems, evolving on SO(3)SO(3), relying on individual angular velocity and relative attitude measurements. The interaction graph topology is assumed to be an undirected tree. First, we propose a continuous nonlinear distributed attitude estimation scheme with almost global asymptotic stability guarantees. Thereafter, we proceed with the \textit{hybridization} of the proposed estimation scheme to derive a new hybrid nonlinear distributed attitude estimation scheme enjoying global asymptotic stabilization of the attitude estimation errors to a common constant orientation. In addition, the proposed hybrid attitude estimation scheme is used to solve the problem of pose estimation of NN-vehicles navigating in a three-dimensional space, with global asymptotic stability guarantees, where the only available measurements are the local relative bearings and the individual linear velocities. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed estimation schemes.

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@article{arxiv.2304.01928,
  title  = {Distributed Attitude Estimation for Multi-agent Systems on $SO(3)$},
  author = {Mouaad Boughellaba and Abdelhamid Tayebi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01928},
  year   = {2024}
}
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