scholarly journals Design of Standoff Cooperative Target-Tracking Guidance Laws for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Zhen Li ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
Zhenhua Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Lyapunov Theory ◽  
Control System Design ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Communication Topology ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Cooperative Tracking ◽  
Guidance Laws ◽  
Lyapunov Vector

This paper investigates two guidance laws of standoff cooperative tracking static and moving of multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for targets from the perspective of the control system design. In the scheme of the proposed guidance laws, one vehicle is chosen as leader and others as followers. The leader only needs the measurement of the target, and the followers only measure the leader and its neighbors in the communication topology network. By using the proposed guidance laws, it is guaranteed that all vehicles can track a static or moving target with an evenly spaced formation of circle. Considering the coupling of tracking and cooperation, the stability analysis is performed by constructing two relatively independent subsystems based on Lyapunov theory, and the corresponding rigorous proofs of stability are given. By comparing with the Lyapunov vector field guidance law, the simulation results verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed guidance laws.

Fully distributed guidance laws for unmanned aerial vehicles formation flight

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 965-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoqian Wei ◽  
Jianying Yang ◽  
Xiangru Fan
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Formation Flight ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Flight Trajectory ◽  
Adaptive Technology ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Guidance Laws

In this paper, three fully distributed guidance laws are designed for unmanned aerial vehicles formation flight, which have the following advantages. Adaptive technology in novel guidance laws can adapt to various graphs that only need one spanning tree. Cooperative formation does not need to set the virtual structure of formation in advance, but only needs to adjust the formation parameters in the guidance law to achieve the desired time-varying formation. This paper uses a guidance law perpendicular to the line of sight to make the flight trajectory more straight; hence, enhancing its applicability in real-world scenarios. These new guidance laws also enable group formation transformation and can optimize the unmanned aerial vehicles’ formation without global information to obtain the optimum performance of the formation. The simulation results show the practicability and effectiveness of the new method.

A Cooperative Guidance Law for UAVs Target Tracking

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 324-335
Author(s):  
Xin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Lyapunov Functions ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Simulation Experiments ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Ground Target ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Cooperative Tracking ◽  
Circle Formation ◽  
Guidance Laws ◽  
Better Than

The problem of automatic tracking of ground targets is one of the important issues that UAVs need to face in task applications. The main concern of cooperative tracking is how to track a ground target and maintain the UAV formation simultaneously. In this paper, a new leader-follower formation is constructed to track a ground target. Firstly, a new leader UAV guidance law is proposed to track the ground target in the standoff mode, the stability is proved using a Lyapunov function. Secondly, new guidance laws for standoff tracking of the leader UAV and controlling of the inter-UAV angle of the circle formation are designed for follower UAVs, respectively, stabilities are also proved using two Lyapunov functions. Numerical simulation experiments show that the new leader-follower formation can track the static and moving targets well and its performance is better than the classic LVFG algorithm

3D Nonlinear Guidance Law for Bank-to-Turn Missile

2011 ◽  
Vol 317-319 ◽  
pp. 727-733
Author(s):  
Shuang Chun Peng ◽  
Liang Pan ◽  
Tian Jiang Hu ◽  
Lin Cheng Shen
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Lyapunov Theory ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Rate Model ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Terminal Constraints ◽  
Guidance Laws ◽  
3D Guidance ◽  
Guidance Model ◽  
Vector Description

A new three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear guidance law is proposed and developed for bank-to-turn (BTT) with motion coupling. First of all, the 3D guidance model is established. In detail, the line-of-sight (LOS) rate model is established with the vector description method, and the kinematics model is divided into three terms of pitching, swerving and coupling, then by using the twist-based method, the LOS direction changing model is built for designing the guidance law with terminal angular constraints. Secondly, the 3D guidance laws are designed with Lyapunov theory, corresponding to no terminal constraints and terminal constraints, respectively. And finally, the simulation results show that the proposed guidance law can effectively satisfy the guidance precision requirements of BTT missile.

scholarly journals A sectorial fuzzy consensus algorithm for the formation flight of multiple quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 175682932097357
Author(s):  
E Javier Ollervides-Vazquez ◽  
Erik G Rojo-Rodriguez ◽  
Octavio Garcia-Salazar ◽  
Luis Amezquita-Brooks ◽  
Pedro Castillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Fuzzy Controller ◽  
Fuzzy Theory ◽  
Lyapunov Theory ◽  
Formation Flight ◽  
Consensus Algorithm ◽  
State Variables ◽  
Globally Asymptotically Stable ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This paper presents an algorithm based on fuzzy theory for the formation flight of the multi-quadrotors. For this purpose, the mathematical model of N-quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles is presented using the Newton-Euler formulation. The strategy of the formation flight is based on a structure composed by a sectorial fuzzy controller and the linear systems whose state variables are the position and velocity of the ith quadrotor. The stability analysis is described as a generalized form for N-quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles and it is based on the Lyapunov theory. This analysis demonstrates that the closed-loop system is globally asymptotically stable so that the quadrotors unmanned aerial vehicles reach the consensus. Numerical simulation demonstrates the robustness of the proposed scheme for the formation flight even in the presence of disturbances. Finally, experimental results show the feasibility of the proposed algorithm for the formation flight of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles.

Three-dimensional multiple unmanned aerial vehicles formation control strategy based on second-order consensus

2016 ◽  
Vol 232 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Zhu ◽  
Xun-Xun Zhang ◽  
Mao-De Yan ◽  
Yao-Hong Qu ◽  
Hai Lin
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Cooperative Control ◽  
Formation Control ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Guidance Law ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Cooperative Guidance ◽  
Consensus Strategy ◽  
Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Considering three-dimensional formation control for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles, this paper proposes a second-order consensus strategy by utilizing the position and velocity coordinate variables. To maintain the specified geometric configuration, a cooperative guidance algorithm and a cooperative control algorithm are proposed together to manage the position and attitude, respectively. The cooperative guidance law, which is designed as a second-order consensus algorithm, provides the desired pitch rate, heading rate and acceleration. In addition, a synchronization technology is put forward to reduce the influence of the measurement errors for the cooperative guidance law. The cooperative control law, regarding the output of the cooperative guidance law as its input, is designed by deducing the state-space expression of both the longitudinal and lateral motions. The formation stability is analyzed to give a sufficient and necessary condition. Finally, the simulations for the three-dimensional formation control demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the second-order consensus strategy.

scholarly journals Finite-Time Observer Based Cooperative Tracking Control of Networked Lagrange Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Gang Chen ◽  
Qing Lin
Keyword(s):  
Finite Time ◽  
Tracking Control ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Lyapunov Theory ◽  
Actuator Faults ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Systems ◽  
External Disturbances ◽  
Communication Topology ◽  
Velocity Information ◽  
Cooperative Tracking

This paper investigates the cooperative tracking control problem for networked uncertain Lagrange systems with a leader-follower structure on digraphs. Since the leader’s information is only available to a portion of the followers, finite-time observers are designed to estimate the leader’s velocity. Based on the estimated velocity information and the universal approximation ability of fuzzy logic systems, a distributed adaptive fuzzy tracking control protocol is first proposed for the fault-free Lagrange systems. Then, the actuator faults are considered and a distributed fault-tolerant controller is presented. Based on graph theory and Lyapunov theory, the convergence analyses for the proposed algorithms are provided. The development in this paper is suitable for the general directed communication topology. Numerical simulation results are presented to show the closed-loop performance of the proposed control law and illustrate its robustness to actuator faults and external disturbances.

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