A new online detection strategy is developed to detect faults in sensors and actuators of
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. In this design, the weighting parameters of the …

The formation control technology of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is a current
research hotspot, and formation switching and formation obstacle avoidance are vital …

Formation control is a prerequisite for the formation to complete specified tasks safely and
efficiently. Considering non-symmetrical communication interference and network …

A procedure to compute guidance commands for controlling the relative geometry of multiple
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in formation flight is proposed. The concepts of branch …

The artificial potential field method is widely used in UAV formation and obstacle avoidance
due to its concise algorithm and easy implementation, but it is easy to fall into a local optimal …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the performance of several
different UAV trajectory tracking algorithms in normal and abnormal flight conditions to …

This paper presents a Matlab/Simulink simulation environment developed at West Virginia
University to facilitate the design, testing, and analysis of fault-tolerant control laws for …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to gain trajectory-tracking controllers for autonomous
aircraft are optimized using a modified evolutionary, or genetic algorithm (GA) …

The problem of determining feasible maneuver envelope in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle
(multi-UAV) formations is considered. In the leader–follower framework, an analysis is …

This paper presents the results obtained from a formation flight experiment using 3 YF-22
research UAVs built and developed at West Virginia University. In the planned 3-aircraft …