Model Predictive Control Approach to Autonomous Formation Flight

Formation flight is when multiple objects fly together in a coordination. Various automatic control methods have been used for the autonomous execution of formation flight of aerial vehicles. In this paper, the capacity of the model predictive control (MPC) approach in the autonomous execution of fo...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-12
Main Authors: Celik, Harun, Kilinc, Dilara
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automatic control
Collision avoidance
Control methods
Formation flying
Obstacle avoidance
Predictive control
Trajectories
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Summary:Formation flight is when multiple objects fly together in a coordination. Various automatic control methods have been used for the autonomous execution of formation flight of aerial vehicles. In this paper, the capacity of the model predictive control (MPC) approach in the autonomous execution of formation flight is examined. The MPC is a controller that capable of performing formation flight, maintaining tracking desired trajectory while avoiding collisions between aerial vehicles, and obstacles faced. Through this approach, aerial vehicle models with six degrees of freedom in a three-dimensional environment are performed formation flight autonomously, mostly in a triangle order. Not only the trajectory for the formation flight can be tracked through the MPC architecture, also the collision avoidance strategies of the aerial vehicles can be performed by this architecture. Simulation studies show that MPC has sufficient capability in both cases. Therefore, it is concluded that this method can deal with constraints, avoid obstacles as well as collisions between aerial vehicles. However, implementation of MPC to aerial vehicles in real time holds challenges.
ISSN:2331-8422