RESEARCH PAPER
Flexible Structure Control Scheme of a UAVs Formation to Improve the Formation Stability During Maneuvers
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Automatics and Robotics, Bialystok University of Technology, ul. Wiejska 45C, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
Submission date: 2016-10-10
Acceptance date: 2017-08-07
Online publication date: 2017-10-07
Publication date: 2017-09-01
Acta Mechanica et Automatica 2017;11(3):178-185
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ABSTRACT
One of the issues related to formation flights, which requires to be still discussed, is the stability of formation flight in turns, where the aerodynamic conditions can be substantially different for outer vehicles due to varying bank angles. Therefore, this paper proposes a decentralized control algorithm based on a leader as the reference point for followers, i.e. other UAVs and two flocking behaviors responsible for local position control, i.e. cohesion and repulsion. But opposite to other research in this area, the structure of the formation becomes flexible (structure is being reshaped and bent according to actual turn radius of the leader. During turns the structure is bent basing on concentred circles with different radiuses corresponding to relative locations of vehicles in the structure. Simultaneously, UAVs' air-speeds must be modified according to the length of turn radius to achieve the stability of the structure. The effectiveness of the algorithm is verified by the results of simulated flights of five UAVs.
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