This paper presents an integrated guidance and control design for formation flight using a combination of adaptive output feedback and backstepping techniques without an underlying time-scale separation assumption. We formulate the problem as an adaptive output feedback control problem for a line-of-sight (LOS) based formation flight configuration of a leader and a follower aircraft. The design...

Formation flight has long been performed by many species of birds for its social and aerodynamic benefits. The traditional "V" shape formation flown by birds not only helped communication between individuals, but also decreased the induced drag for each trailing bird, and thus reduced the energy required for flying (Weimerskirch et al. 2001). The benefits of formation flight have also been eval...

In this paper, four scenarios are presented for cooperative source seeking and contour mapping of a radiative signal field by multiple UAV formations. A source seeking strategy is adopted with saturation, and then it is modified to achieve contour mapping of the signal field with the moving source situation considered. A formation controller used for consensus problem is simplified and applied ...

With the increasing use of airspace and the wide application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), the Sense And Avoid (SAA) problem has attracted more and more attention. This paper presents a solution for the SAA of UAV formation equipped with optical sensors. We introduce the stereo vision theory combined with the UAV formation to calculate the position of the targets. The tracking of target is...

in this paper, a stochastic cell formation problem is studied using queuing theory framework and considering reliability. since cell formation problem is np-hard, two algorithms based on genetic and modified particle swarm optimization (mpso) algorithms are developed to solve the problem. for generating initial solutions in these algorithms, a new heuristic method is developed, which always cre...

Airlines spend considerable time, effort and financial resources on planning. It is essential to create a competitive timetable and construct a fleet and a crew schedule that utilizes these resources to the maximum. Unfortunately, it is all too common that an airline is faced with the necessity of reconstructing their schedules due to some unforeseen event, e.g., an aircraft breakdown or a crew...

A Multi-Agent System(MAS) consensus based algorithm is proposed for Multi-UAVs to maintain a specified time-varying geometric configuration for formation flight in 3-D space. Use decoupling characteristics in altitude control of Multi-UAVs, formation problem in 3-D space, was decomposed altitude control and plane control. In this approach, the proposed control strategy requires only the local n...