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Decentralized Consensus Protocols on SO(4)N and TSO(4)N with Reshaping
Eric A Butcher1, Vianella Spaeth2
1Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1130 N Mountain Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Abstract:
Consensus protocols for a multi-agent networked system consist of strategies that align the states of all agents that share information according to a given network topology, despite challenges such as communication limitations, time-varying networks, and communication delays. The special orthogonal group SO(n) plays a key role in applications from rigid body attitude synchronization to machine learning on Lie groups, particularly in fields like physics-informed learning and geometric deep learning. In this paper, N-agent consensus protocols are proposed on the Lie group SO(4) and the corresponding tangent bundle TSO(4), in which the state spaces are SO(4)N and TSO(4)N, respectively. In particular, when using communication topologies such as a ring graph for which the local stability of non-consensus equilibria is retained in the closed loop, a consensus protocol that leverages a reshaping strategy is proposed to destabilize non-consensus equilibria and produce consensus with almost global stability on SO(4)N or TSO(4)N. Lyapunov-based stability guarantees are obtained, and simulations are conducted to illustrate the advantages of these proposed consensus protocols.
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