Dynamics and flight control of the UAV formations

  • Authors:
  • Teodor-Viorel Chelaru;Valentin Pana;Adrian Chelaru

  • Affiliations:
  • University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;SC Comfrac R&D Project Expert SRL, Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Systems and Control
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe the flight of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) formation by using a 6 degrees of freedom (6 DOF) models. The problem of flight formation will be approached in a simple manner, by using a 3 DOF models, as well as using the complex equations that describe the movement of the 6 DOF for UAV. This theoretical development allows us to define a control structure based on direct commands, which is useful in practical applications. The work will present and analyze the calculus results for each developed solution. The novelty of this paper consists in the definition and testing of some practical solutions for an algorithm that can control an UAV formation. This algorithm allows decrypting the flight of a single UAV, as well as the entire formation. The conclusions will focus the practical possibility of implementing such algorithm on a UAV formation.