Nonlinear guidance and control of leader-follower UAV formations

Date

2015

Author

Kumbasar, Sarper

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In this thesis work, two nonlinear guidance methods are proposed to control the autonomous formation flight: State Dependent Riccati Equation method and Lyapunov function method. Leader-Follower formation scheme is chosen and a pair of fighter aircrafts are used in simulations. One of them is chosen as the leader and it carries out the commanded maneuvers. Other aircraft is the follower and it follows the leader keeping the prescribed formation structure. Both aircraft models are nonlinear. In the inner loop, a nonlinear control algorithm, State Dependent Riccati Equation method is used to control the flight.

Subject Keywords

Drone aircraft., Automatic control., Lyapunov functions., Control theory.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12618530/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24449

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis