[HTML][HTML] Advancement challenges in UAV swarm formation control: A comprehensive review

Y Bu, Y Yan, Y Yang - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the current research landscape in the field of
UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) swarm formation control. This review examines both …

Formation control and coordination of multiple unmanned ground vehicles in normal and faulty situations: A review

MA Kamel, X Yu, Y Zhang - Annual reviews in control, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, multiple unmanned vehicles have attracted a great deal of attention as viable
solutions to a wide variety of civilian and military applications. Among many topics in the …

[HTML][HTML] Fault-tolerant cooperative navigation of networked UAV swarms for forest fire monitoring

J Hu, H Niu, J Carrasco, B Lennox, F Arvin - Aerospace Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coordination of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms has received significant attention
due to its wide practical applications including search and rescue, cooperative exploration …

An improved artificial potential field method for path planning and formation control of the multi-UAV systems

Z Pan, C Zhang, Y Xia, H Xiong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path planning and formation control are both challenging and critical issues in robotics,
which involve computing an optimal path from the initial position to target while keeping the …

Time-varying formation tracking for second-order multi-agent systems subjected to switching topologies with application to quadrotor formation flying

X Dong, Y Zhou, Z Ren, Y Zhong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-varying formation tracking analysis and design problems for second-order Multi-Agent
systems with switching interaction topologies are studied, where the states of the followers …

Theory and experiment on formation-containment control of multiple multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle systems

X Dong, Y Hua, Y Zhou, Z Ren… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formation-containment control problems for multiple multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) systems with directed topologies are studied, where the states of leaders form desired …

Time-varying formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles: Theories and applications

X Dong, B Yu, Z Shi, Y Zhong - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formation control analysis and design problems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm
systems to achieve time-varying formations are investigated. To achieve predefined time …

Distributed formation control of multiple quadrotor aircraft based on nonsmooth consensus algorithms

H Du, W Zhu, G Wen, Z Duan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of distributed formation control for multiple quadrotor aircraft in the form of
leader-follower structure is considered in this paper. Based on a nonsmooth backstepping …

Robust formation control for multiple quadrotors with nonlinearities and disturbances

H Liu, T Ma, FL Lewis, Y Wan - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the robust formation control problem is investigated for a group of quadrotors.
Each quadrotor dynamics exhibits the features of underactuation, high nonlinearities and …

Time-varying formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles with switching interaction topologies

X Dong, Y Zhou, Z Ren, Y Zhong - Control Engineering Practice, 2016 - Elsevier
Time-varying formation control problems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm systems
with switching interaction topologies are studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for …