Keywords
cooperative control, rendezvous, UAV, unmanned aircraft
Abstract
The cooperative control of timing and synchronization of tasks of multiple unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) represents a valuable capability for a wide range of potential multi-UAV missions. This research addresses the specific problem of cooperative rendezvous in which multiple UAVs are to arrive at their targets simultaneously. The development of a rendezvous manager state machine and a cooperative control decomposition approach are described. Simulation results demonstrating the feasibility of the approach are presented.
Original Publication Citation
McLain, T., Chandler, P., Rasmussen, S., and Pachter, M. Cooperative Control of UAV Rendezvous, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, vol. 3, pp. 2309-2314, June 2001, Arlington, Virginia.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
McLain, Timothy W.; Chandler, Phillip R.; Rasmussen, Steven; and Pachter, Meir, "Cooperative Control of UAV Rendezvous" (2001). Faculty Publications. 1534.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1534
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2001-6
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/3403
Publisher
IEEE
Language
English
College
Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Copyright Status
(c) 2001 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2001.946096
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