COORDINATED FLIGHT OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS GROUP

Abstract

This paper proposes a leader following autonomous approach for UAV formation flight. The objective of UAV formation flight is that UAVs have to fly to a specified region while maintaining the distances and spatial angles between UAVs. To design the control system algorithms, the coupled dynamics of multiple UAVs is considered with assumption that each UAV follows (after) by the leader UAV. For the leader following approach algorithms of guidance system and control system algorithms are created. To verify the performance of the proposed algorithms, numerical simulation is performed for a two UAVs flight mission.The approach of autonomous flight control of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) is proposed. For the development of UAS group flight control system algorithms, is necessary to combine the dynamics of several unmanned aerial vehicles with the assumption, that each of UAV’s goes the leader. In order to check the proposed algorithms effectiveness, the numerical simulation of the flight task for two unmanned aerial vehicles was carried out.This work is confirmed, an opportunity implementation of multiple UAVs control has been provided, especially for control of UAVs formation flying, using the leader following approach. Based on this obtained algorithms most appropriative methods of virtual leader behavior method will be researched and developed.