Cyclic Pursuit: Symmetry, Reduction and Nonlinear Dynamics

dc.contributor.advisorKrishnaprasad, Perinkulam Sen_US
dc.contributor.advisorJusth, Eric Wen_US
dc.contributor.authorGalloway, Kevinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-17T06:38:34Z
dc.date.available2012-02-17T06:38:34Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, we explore the use of pursuit interactions as a building block for collective behavior, primarily in the context of constant bearing (CB) cyclic pursuit. Pursuit phenomena are observed throughout the natural environment and also play an important role in technological contexts, such as missile-aircraft encounters and interactions between unmanned vehicles. While pursuit is typically regarded as adversarial, we demonstrate that pursuit interactions within a cyclic pursuit framework give rise to seemingly coordinated group maneuvers. We model a system of agents (e.g. birds, vehicles) as particles tracing out curves in the plane, and illustrate reduction to the shape space of relative positions and velocities. Introducing the CB pursuit strategy and associated pursuit law, we consider the case for which agent i pursues agent i+1 (modulo n) with the CB pursuit law. After deriving closed-loop cyclic pursuit dynamics, we demonstrate asymptotic convergence to an invariant submanifold (corresponding to each agent attaining the CB pursuit strategy), and proceed by analysis of the reduced dynamics restricted to the submanifold. For the general setting, we derive existence conditions for relative equilibria (circling and rectilinear) as well as for system trajectories which preserve the shape of the collective (up to similarity), which we refer to as pure shape equilibria. For two illustrative low-dimensional cases, we provide a more comprehensive analysis, deriving explicit trajectory solutions for the two-particle "mutual pursuit" case, and detailing the stability properties of three-particle relative equilibria and pure shape equilibria. For the three-particle case, we show that a particular choice of CB pursuit parameters gives rise to remarkable almost-periodic trajectories in the physical space. We also extend our study to consider CB pursuit in three dimensions, deriving a feedback law for executing the CB pursuit strategy, and providing a detailed analysis of the two-particle mutual pursuit case. We complete the work by considering evasive strategies to counter the motion camouflage (MC) pursuit law. After demonstrating that a stochastically steering evader is unable to thwart the MC pursuit strategy, we propose a (deterministic) feedback law for the evader and demonstrate the existence of circling equilibria for the closed-loop pursuer-evader dynamics.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12226
dc.subject.pqcontrolledElectrical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCollectiveen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledConstant Bearingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledControlsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCyclicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMotion Camouflageen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPursuiten_US
dc.titleCyclic Pursuit: Symmetry, Reduction and Nonlinear Dynamicsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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