Decentralized consensus control of a rigid-body spacecraft formation with communication delay

M Nazari, EA Butcher, T Yucelen… - Journal of Guidance …, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
The decentralized consensus control of a formation of rigid-body spacecraft is studied in the
framework of geometric mechanics while accounting for a constant communication time …

Mobile formation coordination and tracking control for multiple nonholonomic vehicles

X Peng, Z Sun, K Guo, Z Geng - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses forward motion control for trajectory tracking and mobile formation
coordination for a group of nonholonomic vehicles on SE (2). First, by constructing an …

Non-linear dual-mode receding horizon control for multiple unmanned air vehicles formation flight based on chaotic particle swarm optimisation

HB Duan, SQ Liu - IET control theory & applications, 2010 - IET
This study presents a non-linear dual-mode receding horizon control (RHC) approach to
investigate the formation flight problem for multiple unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) under …

Distributed output-feedback formation tracking control for unmanned aerial vehicles

L He, X Sun, Y Lin - International Journal of Systems Science, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper considers the output-feedback formation problem of tracking a desired trajectory
for a group of networked unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). By introducing a state observer …

Fault‐tolerant formation control of non‐linear multi‐vehicle systems with application to quadrotors

J Shi, Y Yang, J Sun, X He, D Zhou… - IET Control Theory & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study is concerned with the fault‐tolerant (FT) formation control problem with a
guaranteed performance for non‐linear multi‐vehicle systems subject to actuator faults. The …

Leader-follower formation control for quadrotors

F Wu, J Chen, Y Liang - IOP conference series: materials science …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Quadrotors are gaining an increasing interest in public and extensively explored in recent
years. In many situations, a team of quadrotors is desired to operate in a certain shape …

Unmanned air systems: Challenge and opportunity

MS Francis - Journal of Aircraft, 2012 - arc.aiaa.org
The emergence, evolving role, and future potential of unmanned air systems (UAS), as
influenced by historical, technological, and cultural factors, are examined from a strategic …

Fault-tolerant cooperative output regulation for multi-vehicle systems with sensor faults

L Qin, X He, DH Zhou - International Journal of Control, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a unified framework of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant cooperative
output regulation (FTCOR) for a linear discrete-time multi-vehicle system with sensor faults …

Design and verification of UAV formation controller based on leader-follower method

Z Gu, B Song, Y Fan, X Chen - 2022 7th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the UAV formation control problem, a UAV formation controller is proposed. The
formation controller is designed by the sliding mode control method under the Leader …

[HTML][HTML] A Novel Method of Time-Varying Formation Control Based on a Directed Graph for Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

G Shao, L Wan, H Xu - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Currently, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are facing various challenges,
rendering multiple-AUV (multi-AUV) formation control a pivotal research direction. The …