This paper deals with the design of a decentralized guidance and control strategy for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with the objective of maintaining a given connection topology with assigned mutual distances while flying to a target area. In the absence of obstacles, the assigned topology, based on an extended Delaunay triangulation concept, implements regular and connected formation shapes. In the presence of obstacles, this technique is combined with a model predictive control (MPC) that allows forming independent sub-swarms optimizing the formation spreading to avoid obstacles and collisions between neighboring vehicles. A custom numerical simulator was developed in a Matlab/Simulink environment to prove the effectiveness of the proposed guidance and control scheme in several 2D operational scenarios with obstacles of different sizes and increasing number of aircraft.


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    Titel :

    Decentralized mesh-based model predictive control for swarms of UAVs



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-01-01



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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