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Range‐only control for cooperative target circumnavigation of unmanned aerial vehicles
Author(s) -
Zhang Min,
Lin Yun,
Hao Huixin,
Mei Jingsong
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advanced control for applications: engineering and industrial systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2578-0727
DOI - 10.1002/adc2.51
Subject(s) - range (aeronautics) , convergence (economics) , computer science , stability (learning theory) , control (management) , control theory (sociology) , tracking (education) , aerospace engineering , engineering , artificial intelligence , machine learning , psychology , pedagogy , economics , economic growth
This article deals with cooperative target circumnavigation control strategy for a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) when only range measurements are available. First, we propose novel guidance laws based solely on range measurements for tracking and cooperation. Then, convergence and stability of the proposed guidance laws are proved by a rigorous inference of mathematics. Moreover, an illustrative simulation shows that the controlled UAVs orbit around a target and maintain even spacing along the common circle, which confirms the performance of the proposed guidance algorithms.