Time-Varying Formation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Theories and Applications

By Xiwang Dong, Bocheng Yu, Zongying Shi, Yisheng Zhong. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2015

922 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. Xiaohua Ge
2. Qing-Long Han
3. Yan Zhou
4. Zhang Ren
5. Xiwang Dong
6. Yisheng Zhong
7. Geng Lu
8. Qingdong Li

In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Xiaohua Ge
2. Qing-Long Han
3. Xiwang Dong
4. Yan Zhou
5. Zhang Ren
6. Yisheng Zhong
7. Geng Lu
8. Qingdong Li

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Xiwang Dong
2. Qing-Long Han
3. Xiaohua Ge
4. Yan Zhou
5. Yisheng Zhong
6. Amir Hossein Barshooi
7. Abdollah Amirkhani

Citations in the corpus

• Theory and Experiment on Formation-Containment Control of Multiple Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems (2019, background): “can be modeled by the following double-integrator [9], [10], [25], [27]”
• Time‐varying group formation analysis and design for general linear multi‐agent systems with directed topologies (2016, background): “Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in cooperative control of multi-agent systems due to its extensive applications in synchronization of networked systems [1, 2], cooperative manipulation of mobile robots [3, 4], formation flying of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) [5, 6], and so on.”
• Affine Formation Maneuver Control of Multiagent Systems (2018, background): “An approach that can track general time-varying formations has been proposed recently in [17].”
• Time-Varying Formation Tracking for Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems Subjected to Switching Topologies With Application to Quadrotor Formation Flying (2017, background): “, [34], [35], [45], and [46] for more details).”
• Time-varying formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles with switching interaction topologies (2014, methodology): “For each of these UAVs, since the trajectory dynamics has much larger time constants than the attitude dynamics, the formation control can be decoupled into an inner-loop control and an outer-loop control, where the inner-loop controller stabilizes the attitude and the outer-loop controller is used ”
• Distributed Formation Control of Networked Multi-Agent Systems Using a Dynamic Event-Triggered Communication Mechanism (2017, methodology): “…autonomous underwater vehicles, nonholonomic mobile robots and generally linear dynamical systems, see, e.g., [3], [5]–[10] using leader–follower methods, [11]–[13] based on virtual leader approaches, [2], [14], [15] with leaderless consensus strategies and [16] adopting the complex Laplacian.”