Mission Oriented Flocking and Distributed Formation Control of UAVs

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Abstract

This paper presents the development of a novel autonomous search, detect and task execution model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) distributed formations. This work studies the problems of formation flocking, tracking and collision avoidance for a distributed formation of UAVs by use of multi-agent graph theory and artificial potential field approach in the first stage, based upon the proposed algorithm the second stage implements target search, detection and mission execution tasks, while the last stage carries out the re-flocking of the vacant UAVs. In order to validate the model, simulations were performed for every stage of the process to evaluate the desired flocking and task execution performance of the distributed formation. Finally, the results obtained from the simulations indicate that UAVs using the proposed model are able to execute the mission as per desired performance goals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 16th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1507-1512
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665422482
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2021
Event16th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2021 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 1 Aug 20214 Aug 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 16th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2021

Conference

Conference16th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period1/08/214/08/21

Keywords

  • Artificial potential field
  • Distributed formation control
  • Formation flocking
  • Multi-agent graph theory
  • Swarm UAVs
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

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