Abstract
Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide facilities in various applications. Compared with single UAV system, small UAVs based cooperative UAV system can bring advantages such as higher efficiency and safety. Therefore, it is necessary to design a robust multi-agent cooperative flight controller to coordinate a group of small UAVs for stable formation flights. This paper investigates the problem of consensus-based formation control for a multi-UAV system. Firstly, We choose a simplified model with nonholonomic constraints for UAV dynamics. Secondly, using the algebraic theory and backstepping technique, we design consensus protocols for multi-UAV systems under the strongly connected topology. Then based on that, we propose a multi-UAVfromation control strategy. Finally, we extend our results to the directed topology case which is still effective by simulation.
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