Development of Control System Synthesis Method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Moving in a Group

Abstract

The paper deals with a control system synthesis method for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) which can implement search or monitoring applications (missing people, fish exploration, aerial photography and so on). Very often this requires efficiency and occurs in adverse weather conditions of the sea, highlands, deep forest, high latitudes, etc. In such conditions, navigation and communication with the ground control station may be difficult. Group control strategy "leader-followers" reduces the risks to the equipment and simplifies the creation of the flight task. To do this, a UWB beacon is placed on the leader, which allows the followers to determine the distance to him and receive data on his movement parameters. As a result, all the followers can provide navigation and maintain a set formation relative to the leader, without communication with the ground control station. The simulation results confirmed the operability and effectiveness of the proposed method UAV group control method.