articleIEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyApr 15, 2014Closed access

Time-Varying Formation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Theories and Applications

XDXiwang DongBYBocheng YuZSZongying ShiYZYisheng Zhong

Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Formation control analysis and design problems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm systems to achieve time-varying formations are investigated. To achieve predefined time-varying formations, formation protocols are presented for UAV swarm systems first, where the velocities of UAVs can be different when achieving formations. Then, consensus-based approaches are applied to deal with the time-varying formation control problems for UAV swarm systems. Necessary and sufficient conditions for UAV swarm systems to achieve time-varying formations are proposed. An explicit expression of the time-varying formation center function is derived. In addition, a procedure to design the protocol for UAV swarm systems to…

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  • Swarm behaviour
  • Computer science
  • Function (biology)
  • Control theory (sociology)
  • Control engineering
  • Protocol (science)
  • Control (management)
  • Engineering
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