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 …

Coordinated standoff tracking of moving targets: Control laws and information architectures

TH Summers, MR Akella, MJ Mears - Journal of Guidance, Control, and …, 2009 - arc.aiaa.org
In this paper, we present work on the control of autonomous vehicle formations in the context
of the coordinated standoff tracking problem. The objective is to use a team of unmanned …

Coordinated standoff tracking of moving target groups using multiple UAVs

H Oh, S Kim, H Shin, A Tsourdos - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a methodology for coordinated standoff tracking of moving target groups
using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The vector field guidance approach for a …

Adaptive decentralized flocking control of multi-UAV circular formations based on vector fields and backstepping

TZ Muslimov, RA Munasypov - ISA transactions, 2020 - Elsevier
This is a paper on controlling fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm formations
while coordinating their flocking to a specified circular path. The proposed non-uniform in …

Cooperative tracking a moving target using multiple fixed-wing UAVs

M Zhang, HH T. Liu - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2016 - Springer
A cooperative tracking scheme is presented in this paper for multiple fixed-wing unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) to track an uncooperative, moving target. It is comprised of a target …

Ground target tracking using UAV with input constraints

S Zhu, D Wang, CB Low - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2013 - Springer
This paper provides a solution to the problem of ground target tracking using an unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) with control input constraints. Target tracking control with input …

Persistent standoff tracking guidance using constrained particle filter for multiple UAVs

H Oh, S Kim - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new standoff tracking framework of a moving ground target using
UAVs with limited sensing capabilities and motion constraints. To maintain persistent track of …

Cooperative control of multiple UAVs for moving source seeking

S Zhu, D Wang, CB Low - 2013 International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of moving source seeking using multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is
studied in this paper, where unknown scalar field source is considered. Leader-follower …

Collaborative target-tracking control using multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles with constant speeds

Z Sun, H Garcia de Marina, BDO Anderson… - Journal of Guidance …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper considers a collaborative tracking control problem using a group of fixed-wing
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with constant and nonidentical speeds. The dynamics of …

Rendezvous and standoff target tracking guidance using differential geometry

H Oh, S Kim, HS Shin, BA White, A Tsourdos… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2013 - Springer
This paper proposes UAV rendezvous and standoff tracking guidance laws against a
moving target using differential geometry. Searching and subsequent tracking of moving …