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Time-varying formation tracking for UAV swarm systems with switching interaction topologies

  • Yan Zhou
  • , Xiwang Dong
  • , Yisheng Zhong*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Time-varying formation tracking problems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm systems with switching interaction topologies are studied, where the states of the follower UAVs form a predefined time-varying formation while tracking the state of the leader UAV. A formation tracking protocol is constructed using only relative information of neighboring UAVs. An approach to design the formation tracking protocol is proposed by solving an algebraic Riccati equation, and the stability of the proposed approach is proven using the common Lyapunov stability theory. The obtained results are applied to solve the target enclosing problem of a quadrotor swarm system consisting of one leader (target) quadrotor and three follower quadrotors. Both a numerical simulation and an outdoor experiment are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 35th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2016
EditorsJie Chen, Qianchuan Zhao, Jie Chen
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages7658-7665
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789881563910
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Aug 2016
Event35th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2016 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 27 Jul 201629 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameChinese Control Conference, CCC
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)1934-1768
ISSN (Electronic)2161-2927

Conference

Conference35th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period27/07/1629/07/16

Keywords

  • Formation tracking control
  • swarm system
  • switching interaction topology
  • target enclosing
  • unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

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