An Overview of Research in Distributed Attitude Coordination Control

This paper provides an overview of attitude coordination problems of multi-rigid-body with the goal of promoting research in this area. Theoretical results regarding consensus seeking with different system models, different communication topologies, different control goals and different techniques are summarized. And applications of consensus protocols to multirigid- body coordination are investigated. Finally, some future research directions and open problems are also proposed. © 2014 Chinese Association of Automation.