Robust formation control for multiple quadrotors with nonlinearities and disturbances

H Liu, T Ma, FL Lewis, Y Wan - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Distributed bearing-based formation maneuver control of fixed-wing UAVs by finite-time orientation estimation

Y Zhang, S Li, S Wang, X Wang, H Duan - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the bearing-based formation maneuver control problem for a group
of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. Unlike the existing works that only steer UAV swarm …

Distributed time-varying output formation tracking for heterogeneous linear multiagent systems with a nonautonomous leader of unknown input

Y Hua, X Dong, G Hu, Q Li, Z Ren - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the time-varying output formation (TVOF) tracking problems for
heterogeneous linear multiagent systems with a nonautonomous leader on directed …

Bearing-only formation tracking control of multiagent systems

S Zhao, Z Li, Z Ding - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of bearing-only formation control of multiagent systems,
where the control of each agent merely relies on the relative bearings to its neighbors …

Distributed adaptive time-varying group formation tracking for multiagent systems with multiple leaders on directed graphs

J Hu, P Bhowmick, A Lanzon - IEEE Transactions on Control of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a fully distributed control protocol that achieves time-varying group
formation tracking for linear multiagent systems connected via a directed graph. The group …

Two‐layer leader‐follower optimal affine formation maneuver control for networked unmanned surface vessels with input saturations

B Zhou, B Huang, Y Su, W Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article studies the two‐layer leader‐follower optimal affine formation maneuver (AFM)
control problem for multiple unmanned surface vessels (USV). The basic idea of the …

Distributed leader–follower affine formation maneuver control for high-order multiagent systems

L Chen, J Mei, C Li, G Ma - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To steer a group of agents to maneuver with the desired collective forms, this article studies
the affine formation maneuver control of high-order multiagent systems using a two-layered …

Distributed affine formation maneuver control of autonomous surface vehicles with event-triggered data transmission mechanism

C Zhu, B Huang, Y Lu, X Li, Y Su - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the distributed affine formation maneuver control for collaborative
autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) systems with the event-triggered data transmission …

A survey of multi-agent systems on distributed formation control

Y Liu, J Liu, Z He, Z Li, Q Zhang, Z Ding - Unmanned Systems, 2023 - World Scientific
Multi-agent formation control is an important part of distributed perception and cooperation,
which is convenient to complete various complex tasks and would be a key research …

A scalable adaptive approach to multi-vehicle formation control with obstacle avoidance

X Ge, QL Han, J Wang… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the problem of distributed formation tracking control and obstacle
avoidance of multi-vehicle systems (MVSs) in complex obstacle-laden environments. The …