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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (S1): 721551-721551.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2017.721551

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Control of multi-UAV cooperative formation with equality communication time-delay

MA Peibei1, LEI Ming2, JI Jun1   

  1. 1. Department of Command, Naval Aeronautical University, Yantai 264001, China;
    2. Department of Control Engineering, Naval Aeronautical University, Yantai 264001, China
  • Received:2017-05-25 Revised:2017-07-17 Online:2017-11-30 Published:2017-07-17
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (61305136); Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (20131384004)

Abstract:

Delay is an unavoidable problem in cooperative formation control of multi-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). It is of a great practical significance to study the effects of time-delay on stability of the multi-UAV formation system. This paper focuses on control of multi-UAV cooperative formation with equality communication time-delay, and obtains the stability conditions of the system. The control law of cooperative formation with equality communication time-delay is designed, and the equation for the closed loop time-delay state of the multi-UAV formation system is obtained. Considering the uncertainty of the system model, the stability condition of the system with constant equality time-delay is obtained by Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI). The simulation results show that the multi-UAV formation system is stable, and the desired formation can be formed and maintained.

Key words: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), formation control, formation flight, communication, time-delay, cooperation

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