Welcome to the homepage of
Flight Dynamics & Control / Hybrid System Lab
the research group of
Prof. I. Hwang
at the
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
The research in this group has been strongly motivated by difficult and interesting practical problems such as controlling multiple-vehicle systems. Controlling multiple-vehicle systems is one of the most important and challenging aspects of modern system theory and practice. Control of such systems involves the analysis of multiple dynamical systems which have inherently decentralized structures. The motions of vehicles have to be coordinated in such a way that the vehicles achieve their goals without conflicts between them. This requires path planning (computing optimal trajectories of vehicles from starting positions to destinations) and conflict detection and resolution. Path planning and conflict detection and resolution require information about individual vehicles, and therefore communication between vehicles for sharing this information is important. Multiple-vehicle systems encompass a variety of applications, including groups of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Satellites, and mobile robots; ad-hoc sensor networks; air traffic control. |
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