Flight formation control

In the last decade the development and control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has attracted a lot of interest. Both researchers and companies have a growing interest in improving this type of vehicle given their many civilian and military applications. This book presents the state of the art in the area of UAV Flight Formation. The coordination and robust consensus approaches are presented in detail as well as formation flight control strategies which are validated in experimental platforms. It aims at helping students and academics alike to better understand what coordination and.

Introduction / J.A. Guerrero -- Theoretical preliminaries / J.A. Guerrero -- Multiagent coordination strategies / J.A. Guerrero [and others] -- Robust control design of multiagent systems with parametric uncertainty / J.A. Guerrero, G. Romero -- On adaptive and robust controlled synchronization of networked robotic systems on strongly connected graphs / Y.-C. Liu, N. Chopra -- Modeling and control of mini UAV / G. Flores Colunga [and others] -- Flight formation control strategies for mini UAVs / J.A. Guerrero -- Formation based on potential functions / L. García, A. Dzul -- Quadrotor vision-based control / J.E. Gomez-Balderas [and others] -- Toward vision-based coordination of quadrotor platoons / L.R. García Carrillo, J.A. Guerrero, R. Lozano -- Optimal guidance for rotorcraft platoon formation flying in wind fields / J.A. Guerrero, Y. Bestaoui, R. Lozano -- Impact of wireless medium access protocol on the quadrotor formation control / J.A. Guerrero, Y. Challal, P. Castillo -- MAC protocol for wireless communications / A. Mendez [and others] -- Optimization of a scannable pattern for bidimensional antenna arrays to provide maximum performance / A. Reyna, M.A. Panduro, A. Mendez.