Topology control algorithms in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle networks: An extensive survey

MM Alam, MY Arafat, S Moh, J Shen - Journal of network and computer …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted increased attention from
academic and industrial research communities, owing to their wide range of potential …

A survey on recent progress in control of swarm systems

B Zhu, L **e, D Han, X Meng, R Teo - Science China Information Sciences, 2017‏ - Springer
It has been witnessed that swarm systems are superior to individual agents in performing
complicated tasks. In recent years, new results in some branches of control for swarm …

Time-varying formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles: Theories and applications

X Dong, B Yu, Z Shi, Y Zhong - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formation control analysis and design problems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm
systems to achieve time-varying formations are investigated. To achieve predefined time …

Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for affine formation control

Z Lin, L Wang, Z Chen, M Fu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new multi-agent control problem, called an affine formation control
problem, with the objective of asymptotically reaching a configuration that preserves …

Integrated relative localization and leader–follower formation control

Z Han, K Guo, L **e, Z Lin - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper concentrates on the integration of relative localization and the formation control
over leader–follower networks. First, we develop a consensus-like relative localization …

Distributed active disturbance rejection formation tracking control for quadrotor UAVs

LX Xu, YL Wang, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a distributed active disturbance rejection formation tracking control strategy is
developed for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm system with switching …

Multi-formation control of nonlinear leader-following multi-agent systems

T Han, ZH Guan, M Chi, B Hu, T Li, XH Zhang - ISA transactions, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This paper deals with the multi-formation control problem for nonlinear leader-following multi-
agent systems. Both the fixed topology case and the switching topology case are …

Formation control with size scaling via a complex Laplacian-based approach

Z Han, L Wang, Z Lin, R Zheng - IEEE transactions on …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the control of formations of a leader-follower network, where the objective is to
steer a team of multiple mobile agents into a formation of variable size. We assume that the …

A multilayer graph for multiagent formation and trajectory tracking control based on MPC algorithm

Z Pan, Z Sun, H Deng, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the formation and trajectory tracking control of multiagent systems. We
present a novel multilayer graph for the multiagent system to enable extensibility of the …

Robust and efficient trajectory planning for formation flight in dense environments

L Quan, L Yin, T Zhang, M Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formation flight has a vast potential for aerial robot swarms in various applications.
However, the existing methods lack the capability to achieve fully autonomous large-scale …