Among the main sub-areas covering the cooperative control problem of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), formation flight has attracted great interest and has been widely investigated. The main purpose of the formation flight control is to establish a desired shape of formation for a group of vehicles by controlling the positions of each vehicle. The present paper deals with the problem of position formation flight control of a group of three multirotor helicopters with collision avoidance. In order to solve the problem, we propose a decentralized scheme based on model predictive controllers (MPC) for formation according to a virtual structure approach. For collision avoidance, a set of convex constraints on the vehicle's positions are included. The proposed method is evaluated on the basis of computational simulations considering that the vehicles are subject to disturbance forces. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the method with primary focus on treatment of anti-collision constraints.


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    Title :

    Formation flight control of multirotor helicopters with collision avoidance




    Publication date :

    2015-06-01


    Size :

    1457176 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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