Rendezvous in space with minimal sensing and coarse actuation

In this paper we propose a control law for achieving rendezvous of autonomous vehicles capable of moving in three-dimensional (3D) space by using minimal data and quantized control. A pre-assigned graph uniquely assigns the pursuer-target pair in a cyclic manner. The measurement required for the proposed control law is the position from which the target vehicle moves out of the field-of-view of the pursuing vehicle. A Lyapunov function is chosen to find a range for the field-of-view which would guarantee rendezvous under the proposed control law.