Mission Planning and Synchronous Coupling Formation Control Algorithm Design for Multiple UAVs

  • Hanqiao Huang
  • , Yu Bai
  • , Di Zhang
  • , Wenxing Fu
  • , Ran Bao

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Abstract

In order to improve the success rate of multi-UAVs missions, efficient multi-UAVs cruise, tracking and attack formations must be designed. This paper takes one of the expected cruise formations as an example, and an effective distributed cooperative formation control method is proposed for the multiple UAVs system subject to directed fixed topology and external disturbances. The objective is to design the formation's position, speed and heading angle such that the states of multi-UAVs system reach consensus. Firstly, an adaptive RBF (Radial Basis Function) neural network is designed to approximate the external disturbance of the system, and achieves a good fitting effect. Secondly, the synchronous coupling method is adopted to solve the problem that the states of the UAV and its neighbor UAVs cannot be synchronously matched. Finally, through simulations of five drones, we can see that the speed, height, heading angle of all UAVs can converge in a short time and maintain the assigned formation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2021 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, ICAUS 2021
EditorsMeiping Wu, Yifeng Niu, Mancang Gu, Jin Cheng
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages3486-3496
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9789811694912
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventInternational Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, ICAUS 2021 - Changsha, China
Duration: 24 Sep 202126 Sep 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume861 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, ICAUS 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangsha
Period24/09/2126/09/21

Keywords

  • Consistency theory
  • Formation control
  • Mission planning
  • Multiple UAVs
  • Synchronous coupling algorithm

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