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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 112 - Annapolis, Maryland - October 2013
Agenda Location	9 SUBCOMMITTEE E – FLIGHT, PROPULSION, AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS 9.1 Multi-vehicle Control and Optimization for Spatiotemporal Sampling
Title	Multi-vehicle Control and Optimization for Spatiotemporal Sampling
Presenter	Derek Paley
Affiliation	University of Maryland
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Abstract	This talk will present recent research in the area of multi-vehicle control and optimization for sampling spatiotemporal processes in the atmosphere and ocean. Sampling performance can be optimized by path-planning algorithms that drive vehicles to specific regions of the operational domain containing the most informative data. I will describe two planning approaches: one using nonlinear observability to optimize sampling trajectories and the other using optimal interpolation. In the first approach, coordinated trajectories for sampling a parametrized flowfield are optimized using the empirical observability gramian. Parameters of the flowfield are reconstructed from noisy flow measurements collected along the sampling trajectories using a recursive Bayesian filter. The second approach is designed for sampling nonstationary fields, in which the spatial and temporal statistics may vary in space and time. A coordinate transformation is designed under which uniform sampling is optimal because the unknown field is stationary in the new coordinates. Both approaches use tools from nonlinear control, specifically Lyapunov-based control, to design decentralized algorithms for stabilization of multi-vehicle sampling formations. Time permitting, experimental applications to micro aerial vehicles and underwater vehicle navigation will be discussed.