Review of attitude consensus of multiple spacecraft

A group of cooperative agents can finish complicated missions that are difficult for a large machine. In the past two decades, spacecraft attitude coordination has attracted significant research attention owing to its wide potential applications. This paper presents survey recent progress on consensus problem, paying particular papers published in major aerospace, dynamics, automation, and robotics journals since 2015. Attitude concepts centralized, decentralized, distributed cases reviewed. overview summarizes results system dynamics algorithms based frequently used representations, such as Euler angles, modified Rodrigues parameters, unit quaternions, rotation matrices. Studies conducted under operating conditions also covered. Experimental discussed. final section, main conclusions drawn several directions provided.