This work presents an overview of current efforts in the area of coordinated control of Organic Air Vehicles (OAVs) at Honeywell Laboratories within the context of formation flight. First, the dynamics of the OAV and its associated Guidance and Control (G&C) loops are briefly discussed. A description of the higher level decentralized optimizationbased scheme used to achieve formation flight for...

More and more often the multiagent formations found in high-risk military and civilian missions are designed to sustain the loss of some agents or control/communication links. In a military context, the agent loss could be a result of enemy attack and/or mechanical breakdown, while the link loss is usually due to enemy jamming, reduced transmission power, obstacles and/or hardware failure. If t...

Control of vehicle formations has emerged as a topic of significant interest to the controls community. In this paper, we merge tools from graph theory and control theory to derive stability criteria for vehicle formations. The interconnection between vehicles (i.e., which vehicles are sensed by other vehicles) is modeled as a graph, and the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of the graph are ...