Consensus control of Jumbo Jet formation flight based on adaptive control

Abstract

This paper studies the consensus control problem of Jumbo Jet formation flight based on multivariable adaptive control. By considering the uncertainties of the system parameters and external disturbances of the lead aircraft and the wing aircraft, with a certain distributed communication topology, based on the algebraic graph theory, a novel multivariable adaptive control with state feedback and state tracking is proposed to solve the consensus problem of the Jumbo Jet formation flight. The stability and the asymptotic tracking of the consensus control system are verified by the Lyapunov theory, to guarantee the wing aircraft to track the lead aircraft flight states. Finally, the simulation results of the consensus control system of Jumbo Jet formation flight show that the multivariable adaptive control method has better tracking performance and robustness than the fixed control gain method.