Path driven formation-containment control of multiple UAVs: A path-following framework

X Shao, H Liu, W Zhang, J Zhao, Q Zhang - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article, a formation-containment control problem of networked unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) guided by multiple leaders evolving along implicit paths is addressed …

Robust path-following control for multiple autonomous vehicles along an implicit elliptical curve

X Shao, J Zhang, W Zhang, Z Zuo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates a robust path-following control problem of multiple autonomous
vehicles along an implicit elliptical curve. At the kinematic level, by formulating a novel …

Path-Following Formation Coordination for Multiple UAVs Considering Communication Constraints

H Liu, X Shao, J Liu, Q Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is related to the coordinated formation control of multiple unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) with con-fined communication resources under a path-following context. To …

Energy shaping dynamic tube-MPC for underactuated mechanical systems

G Bastos Jr, E Franco - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
This work investigates the tracking control problem for underactuated mechanical systems.
To this end, we develop an extension of the dynamic tube Model Predictive Control (MPC) …

On the collocated form with input decoupling of lagrangian systems

P Pustina, C Della Santina, F Boyer, A De Luca… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Suitable representations of dynamical systems can simplify their analysis and control. On
this line of thought, this paper considers the input decoupling problem for input-affine …

Path-following control for an unmanned aerial vehicle slung load system

M Al Lawati, AF Lynch - International Journal of Control, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
A multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) slung load system (SLS) is a nonlinear
dynamics with eight degrees of freedom and four inputs that can be used for load …

A constructive procedure for orbital stabilization of a class of underactuated mechanical systems

JG Romero, I Gandarilla… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this note, we present a constructive procedure to solve the orbital stabilization problem of
a class of nonlinear underactuated mechanical systems with degrees of freedom and …

Space‐and‐time‐synchronized simultaneous fully‐actuated vehicle tracking/formation using cascaded prescribed‐time control

P Wang, Z Chen, X Zhang, SS Ge - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we present a space‐and‐time‐synchronized control method with application to
the simultaneous tracking/formation of fully‐actuated vehicles. In the framework of polar …

Analytic solution for nonlinear impact-angle guidance law with time-varying thrust

S Cho - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an impact-angle guidance law of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with
time-varying thrust in a boosting phase. Most current research on impact-angle guidance …

Periodic motion generation with a time-varying offset for fully actuated torque-driven mechanical systems using energy regulation

J Villalobos-Chin, J Sandoval, R Kelly, V Santibáñez… - Nonlinear …, 2022 - Springer
This paper presents a novel approach to generate desired periodic motions for torque-
driven fully actuated mechanical systems. The proposed scheme is based on a recent …