Algorithms and applications of intelligent swarm cooperative control: A comprehensive survey

X Xu, X Yan, W Yang, K An, W Huang… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2022 - Elsevier
The intelligent swarm concept has attracted much interest in recent years. Intelligent swarms
have been deployed in many real-world applications, such as transportations, target …

Distributed bearing-based formation maneuver control of fixed-wing UAVs by finite-time orientation estimation

Y Zhang, S Li, S Wang, X Wang, H Duan - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the bearing-based formation maneuver control problem for a group
of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. Unlike the existing works that only steer UAV swarm …

Event-triggered formation control for time-delayed discrete-time multi-agent system applied to multi-UAV formation flying

Z Yan, L Han, X Li, X Dong, Q Li, Z Ren - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper studies the formation control for a time-delayed discrete-time multi-agent system
(MAS). An event-triggered controller is proposed to reduce the communication load of the …

Theory and practice for autonomous formation flight of quadrotors via distributed robust sliding mode control protocol with fixed-time stability guarantee

O Mechali, L Xu, X Xie, J Iqbal - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
A detailed theoretical design and technological implementation aspects are presented in
this paper to address the aerial formation control problem of networked quadrotors with a …

Model-guided reinforcement learning enclosing for UAVs with collision-free and reinforced tracking capability

X Shao, Y Xia, Z Mei, W Zhang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Enclosing a maneuverable target for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a constrained
environment is intractable as existing methods fail to coordinate collision safety and tracking …

Observer-based event-triggered sliding mode control for secure formation tracking of multi-UAV systems

T Yin, Z Gu, X Xie - IEEE Transactions on Network Science and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with the problem of the secure formation tracking of multiple
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) subject to replay attacks, where an observer-based event …

Fault detection based on extended state observer and interval observer for UAVs

L Cao, X Yang, G Wang, Y Liu, Y Hu - Aircraft Engineering and …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an actuator fault detection method for
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on interval observer and extended state observer …

Fully distributed prescribed performance formation control for UAVs with unknown maneuver of leader

B An, B Wang, H Fan, L Liu, H Hu, Y Wang - Aerospace Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the formation control for multiple quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) in a leader-follower structure. Taking account of the unknown maneuver of the …

Event-based intermittent formation control of multi-UAV systems under deception attacks

T Yin, Z Gu, JH Park - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the problem of event-based intermittent formation control for multi-
UAV systems subject to deception attacks. Compared to the available research studies on …

Collision-free formation-containment control for a group of UAVs with unknown disturbances

L Chen, H Duan - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the formation-containment control problem for a group of fixed-wing
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) subjected to unknown disturbances. To solve this …