NDLI: Cooperative UAV Formation Flying With Obstacle/Collision Avoidance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Xiaohua Wang Yadav, V. Balakrishnan, S.N.
Copyright Year	1993
Abstract	Navigation problems of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) flying in a formation in a free and an obstacle-laden environment are investigated in this brief. When static obstacles popup during the flight, the UAVs are required to steer around them and also avoid collisions between each other. In order to achieve these goals, a new dual-mode control strategy is proposed: a "safe mode" is defined as an operation in an obstacle-free environment and a "danger mode" is activated when there is a chance of collision or when there are obstacles in the path. Safe mode achieves global optimization because the dynamics of all the UAVs participating in the formation are taken into account in the controller formulation. In the danger mode, a novel algorithm using a modified Grossberg neural network (GNN) is proposed for obstacle/collision avoidance. This decentralized algorithm in 2-D uses the geometry of the flight space to generate optimal/suboptimal trajectories. Extension of the proposed scheme for obstacle avoidance in a 3-D environment is shown. In order to handle practical vehicle constraints, a model predictive control-based tracking controller is used to track the references generated. Numerical results are provided to motivate this approach and to demonstrate its potential.
Sponsorship	IEEE Control Systems Society
Starting Page	672
Ending Page	679
Page Count	8
File Size	523321
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10636536
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-07-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Unmanned aerial vehicles Collision avoidance Predictive models Radar tracking Neural networks Predictive control Nuclear power generation Vehicle dynamics Geometry Fires visibility graph cooperative control Grossberg neural network (GNN) model predictive control (MPC) obstacle avoidance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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