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 …

Position and attitude tracking control for a quadrotor UAV

JJ Xiong, EH Zheng - ISA transactions, 2014 - Elsevier
A synthesis control method is proposed to perform the position and attitude tracking control
of the dynamical model of a small quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), where the …

A novel null-space-based UAV trajectory tracking controller with collision avoidance

MCP Santos, CD Rosales… - IEEE/ASME …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new trajectory tracking controller with collision avoidance is proposed in this paper for
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation. A positive potential function is designed to take …

基于改进人工势场法的多无人机三维编队路径规划

谌海云, 陈华胄, 刘强 - 系统仿真学报, 2020 - china-simulation.com
针对传统人工势场法的障碍物附近目标不可达, 存在局部极小点和振荡的问题对势场函数进行
分析和改进, 以保证目标点为势场的全局最小点. 在动态势场中, 引入是否陷入局部极小点的判断 …

Leader-following formation control of quadcopters with heading synchronization

A Mahmood, Y Kim - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper deals with leader-following formation control and heading synchronization for a
group of quadcopters. Unlike most of existing works that involve a complex design of …

Intelligent leader-following consensus formation control using recurrent neural networks for small-size unmanned helicopters

CW Kuo, CC Tsai, CT Lee - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an intelligent leader-following consensus formation control method using
recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is presented for a team of uncertain small-size unmanned …

Discrete-time sliding mode control for a quadrotor UAV

JJ Xiong, G Zhang - Optik, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper mainly addresses the position and attitude tracking control for a small quadrotor
UAV via discrete-time sliding mode control (DSMC). Firstly, the linear extrapolation method …

Robust formation trajectory tracking control for multiple quadrotors with communication delays

H Liu, T Ma, FL Lewis, Y Wan - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents a robust formation control method for a team of quadrotors with
communication delays. The dynamics of each quadrotor is subject to nonlinearities …

Decentrailized formation flight control of quadcopters using robust feedback linearization

A Mahmood, Y Kim - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, a decentralized formation flight control scheme is proposed for a group of
quadcopters using classical feedback linearization. Existing works typically involve a …

Distributed predictive formation control of networked mobile robots subject to communication delay

MH Yamchi, RM Esfanjani - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper provides a novel distributed predictive controller with guaranteed stability to
maintain formation between mobile robots during their motion along a desired path and …