Cooperative Control of Unmanned Vehicle Formations

Hybrid System Design for Formations of Autonomous Vehicles

Cooperative control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses significant theoretical and technical challenges. Recent advances in sensing, communication and computation enable the conduct of cooperative multiple-UAV missions deemed impossible in the recent past. We are interested in solving the Formation Reconfiguration Planning (FRP) problem which is focused on determining a nominal s...

Motion planning and control of formations of micro aerial vehicles

A model predictive control based algorithm for maintenance of leader-follower formations of micro-scale aerial vehicles is proposed in this paper. The approach is designed for stabilization of teams of unmanned quadrotor helicopters and for their motion planning into a distant target region. The presented method of the model predictive control with a planning horizon enables integration of an o...

Unmanned aircraft systems as wingmen

This paper introduces a method to integrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) into a highly functional manned/ unmanned team through the design and implementation of 3D distributed formation/flight control algorithms with the goal to act as wingmen for a manned aircraft. The proposed algorithms are designed to increase UAS autonomy, dynamically modify formations, utilize standard operating forma...

Multi-level Control Architecture and Energy Efficient Docking for Cooperative Unmanned Air Vehicles

Title Literature survey on hierarchical hybrid system and automata theory for multi - satellite cooperative control

A cooperative control system deals with a multiple dynamic entities that share information or tasks to accomplish a common, though perhaps not singular, objective. The cooperative control has been applied to the coordination of unmanned aerial vehicles, the control of multiple satellites, and the control of robots. This report is a literature survey for satellite cooperative control using hiera...