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Time-Varying Formation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Theories and Applications
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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 achieve time-varying formations is given. Finally, a quadrotor formation platform, which consists of five quadrotors is introduced. Theoretical results obtained in this brief are validated on the quardrotor formation platform, and outdoor experimental results are presented.
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- Authors
- Dong, X., Yu, B., Shi, Z., & Zhong, Y.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
- Published
- 2015-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 340-348
- ISSN
- 1063-6536 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-0865
- OpenAlex
- W2042733674
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- References
- 27
- FWCI
- 49.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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