Research Projects

On the Perpetual Collision-Free RHC of Fleets of Vehicles

Humberto Gonzalez, Elijah Polak and S. Shankar Sastry

Receding Horizon Control is emerging as a very promising technique for the centralized control of fleets of vehicles on land, sea, and in the air. We present a sufficient condition for collision avoidance within a fleet under Receding Horizon Control, over an indefinite period of operation.

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