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UAV Formation Flight and Collision Warning with Centralized Control of Ground Control Station

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied in many fields, and the application of UAV formation flights is also developing rapidly. But currently many widely used types of UAVs are difficult to work with distributed formation control theory. Therefore, this paper presents a centralized formation algorithm with a three-degree-of-freedom UAV model, and also builds up two collision detection models. After tested and verified in MATLAB/Simulink, the models and control law are exported to C++ code and embedded in Qt-based simulation platform and Ground Control System (GCS) and pass the test under the condition of manually cutting off the communication. The simulation platform provides UAV state data, and the GCS serves as Human-Machine-Interface (HMI) to show the state data and perform control law to make formation flight. With centralized control of the GCS, any UAVs can do formation flight without modification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages103-108
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728137926
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2019
Event2019 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2019 - Beijing, China
Duration: 17 Oct 201919 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2019

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period17/10/1919/10/19

Keywords

  • Collision detection
  • Consensus
  • Formation flight
  • Ground control station

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