Flight Formation Control

In the last decade the development and control of UnmannedAerial Vehicles (UAVs) has attracted a lot of interest. Bothresearchers and companies have a growing interest in improving thistype of vehicle given their many civilian and militaryapplications. This book presents the state of the art in the area of UAV FlightFormation. The coordination and robust consensus approaches arepresented in detail as well as formation flight control strategieswhich are validated in experimental platforms. It aims at helpingstudents and academics alike to better understand what coordinationand flight formation control can make possible. Several novel methods are presented: - controllability and observability of multi-agent systems; - robust consensus; - flight formation control; - stability of formations over noisy networks; which generate solutions of guaranteed performance for UAV FlightFormation. Contents 1. Introduction, J.A. Guerrero. 2. Theoretical Preliminaries, J.A. Guerrero. 3. Multiagent Coordination Strategies, J.A. Guerrero, R. Lozano,M.W. Spong, N. Chopra. 4. Robust Control Design for Multiagent Systems with ParametricUncertainty, J.A. Guerrero, G. Romero. 5. On Adaptive and Robust Controlled Synchronization of NetworkedRobotic Systems on Strongly Connected Graphs, Y.-C. Liu, N.Chopra. 6. Modeling and Control of Mini UAV, G. Flores Colunga, J.A.Guerrero, J. Escareño, R. Lozano. 7. Flight Formation Control Strategies for Mini UAVs, J.A.Guerrero. 8. Formation Based on Potential Functions, L. García, A.Dzul. 9. Quadrotor Vision-Based Control, J.E. Gomez-Balderas, J.A.Guerrero, S. SALAZAR, R. Lozano, P. Castillo. 10. Toward Vision-Based Coordination of Quadrotor Platoons, L.R.García Carrillo, J.A. Guerrero, R. Lozano. 11. Optimal Guidance for Rotorcraft Platoon Formation Flying inWind Fields, J.A. Guerrero, Y. Bestaoui, R. Lozano. 12. Impact of Wireless Medium Access Protocol on the QuadrotorFormation Control, J.A. Guerrero, Y. Challal, P. Castillo. 13. MAC Protocol for Wireless Communications, A. Mendez, M.Panduro, O. Elizarraras, D. Covarrubias. 14. Optimization of a Scannable Pattern for Bidimensional AntennaArrays to Provide Maximum Performance, A. Reyna, M.A. Panduro, A.Mendez.