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Robust Formation Control for Multiple Quadrotors with Nonlinearities and Disturbances

  • Hao Liu*
  • , Teng Ma
  • , Frank L. Lewis
  • , Yan Wan
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • Beihang University
  • Northeastern University China

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Abstract

In this paper, the robust formation control problem is investigated for a group of quadrotors. Each quadrotor dynamics exhibits the features of underactuation, high nonlinearities and couplings, and disturbances in both the translational and rotational motions. A distributed robust controller is developed, which consists of a position controller to govern the translational motion for the desired formation and an attitude controller to control the rotational motion of each quadrotor. Theoretical analysis and simulation studies of a formation of multiple uncertain quadrotors are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed formation control scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8509160
Pages (from-to)1362-1371
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Volume50
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2020

Keywords

  • Formation control
  • multiagent system
  • nonlinear system
  • quadrotors
  • robust control

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