Title

Distributed UAV formation control using differential game approach

Authors

Authors

W. Lin

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Aerosp. Sci. Technol.

Keywords

Formation control; Differential games; Distributed control; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; COORDINATION; FLIGHT; Engineering, Aerospace

Abstract

This paper considers a formation control problem for a multiple-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) system where each UAV is able to exchange information with other UAVs according to a fixed information graph. In this paper, each UAV tries to minimize its own performance index which is chosen independently based on its local information. Because of the UAVs' different objectives, the formation control problem is formulated and solved as a differential game problem. Realizing the incapability of the classical Nash strategy approach in dealing with the distributed information, we propose a novel open-loop Nash strategy design approach for each UAV to implement in a fully distributed manner through estimating its terminal state. An illustrative example of a five-UAV formation control problem is solved under different scenarios. (c) 2014 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volume

35

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

54

Last Page

62

WOS Identifier

WOS:000336953200005

ISSN

1270-9638

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