@inbook {KYPACHPE06, title = {A virtual vehicle approach to underway replenishment}, series = {Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences}, year = {2006}, pages = {171{\textendash}189}, publisher = {Springer Verlag}, organization = {Springer Verlag}, chapter = {in Workshop on Group Coordination and Cooperative Control}, address = {Tromsoe, Norway}, abstract = {

The problem of coordinated control of a leader-follower system is solved using a virtual vehicle approach to alleviate information requirements on the leader. The virtual vehicle stabilizes to a shifted reference position/heading defined by the leader, and provides a reference velocity for the synchronization control law of the follower. Only position/heading measurements are available from the leader, and the closed-loop errors are shown to be uniformly globally practically asymptotically stable.

}, keywords = {Robotics}, author = {E. Kyrkjebo and E. Panteley and A. Chaillet and K. Pettersen} }