Adaptive Multi-Agent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems with a Potential Field based Leader-Follower Formation Control Method

2015-01-2457

09/15/2015

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SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition
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In this paper, we investigate the formation control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in an obstacle-laden environment for target tracking. The main contribution of this paper is to develop a potential field based leader-follower formation control method for target tracking and obstacle/collision avoidance. In the potential field, a quantity of virtual positive charge carried by each of UAVs varies depending upon their roles as a leader or follower when obstacles and targets are regarded as ions with larger positive and negative charges, respectively. Therefore, the formation formed by the UAVs connected with their inter-bonds could be adapted while the UAVs get around the obstacles and are attracted to the targets. The potential field based leader-follower formation control method is developed to reshape a UAV team configuration to track a target while the UAV team avoids the obstacles. The adaptivity and efficiency of the closed-loop UAV system was validated by simulating a flying formation of the multiple UAVs to track the target while the formation was adapted to avoid the obstacles.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2457
Pages
10
Citation
Chung, J., and Cheung, Y., "Adaptive Multi-Agent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems with a Potential Field based Leader-Follower Formation Control Method," SAE Technical Paper 2015-01-2457, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2457.
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Sep 15, 2015
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2015-01-2457
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English