Adaptive Multi-Agent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems with a Potential Field based Leader-Follower Formation Control Method 2015-01-2457
In this paper, we investigate the formation control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in an obstacle-laden environment for target tracking. The main contribution of this paper is to develop a potential field based leader-follower formation control method for target tracking and obstacle/collision avoidance. In the potential field, a quantity of virtual positive charge carried by each of UAVs varies depending upon their roles as a leader or follower when obstacles and targets are regarded as ions with larger positive and negative charges, respectively. Therefore, the formation formed by the UAVs connected with their inter-bonds could be adapted while the UAVs get around the obstacles and are attracted to the targets. The potential field based leader-follower formation control method is developed to reshape a UAV team configuration to track a target while the UAV team avoids the obstacles. The adaptivity and efficiency of the closed-loop UAV system was validated by simulating a flying formation of the multiple UAVs to track the target while the formation was adapted to avoid the obstacles.
Citation: Chung, J. and Cheung, Y., "Adaptive Multi-Agent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems with a Potential Field based Leader-Follower Formation Control Method," SAE Technical Paper 2015-01-2457, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2457. Download Citation
Author(s):
Jae Chung, Yushing Cheung
Affiliated:
US Army ARDEC, National Cheng Kung University
Pages: 10
Event:
SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Collision avoidance systems
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