IMPLEMENTATION FOR FLIGHT GROUPS OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

Abstract

This paper proposes a leader following decentralized, 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.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.For the creation neighbor-to-neighbor communication and synchronization such algorithm with using of electro optical or infrared cameras and pattern recognition approaches has been proposed and realized. Also, their approach for implementation of such control system are given, as well as algorithms and principles of works, based on appropriate mathematical models.