Among the key technologies of Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) leader–follower formation control, formation reconfiguration technology is an important element to ensure that multiple UAVs can successfully complete their missions in a complex operating environment. This paper investigates the problem of formation reconfiguration due to battlefield mission requirements. Firstly, in response to the mission requirements, the article proposes the Ant Colony Pheromone Partitioning Algorithm to subgroup the formation. Secondly, the paper establishes the alliance for the obtained subgroups. For the problem of no leader within the alliance formed after grouping or reconfiguring, the Information Concentration Competition Mechanism is introduced to flexibly select information leaders. For the problem of the stability of alliance structure problem, the control law of the Improved Artificial Potential Field method is designed, which can effectively form a stable formation to avoid collision of UAVs in the alliance. Thirdly, the Lyapunov approach is employed for convergence analysis. Finally, the simulation results of multi-UAV formation control show that the partitioning algorithm and the competition mechanism proposed can form a stable alliance as well as deal with the no-leader in it, and the improved artificial potential field designed can effectively avoid collision of the alliance and also prove the highly efficient performance of the algorithm in this paper.


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    Title :

    Formation Control Algorithm of Multi-UAVs Based on Alliance


    Contributors:
    Yan Jiang (author) / Tingting Bai (author) / Yin Wang (author)


    Publication date :

    2022




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown





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