Fault-tolerant formation control of multiple UAVs in the presence of actuator faults

• Published in: International journal of robust and nonlinear control Vol. 26; no. 12; pp. 2668 - 2685
• Main Authors: Yu, Xiang, Liu, Zhixiang, Zhang, Youmin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bognor Regis Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: actuator faults; Actuators; Convergence; Fault tolerance; fault-tolerant formation control (FTFC); Faults; Formations; Gain; Mathematical analysis; Unmanned aerial vehicles; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Summary In order to counteract actuator faults in formation flight of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this paper presents a fault‐tolerant formation control (FTFC) design methodology, in which the reference generator and the finite‐time convergence of FTFC gains are explicitly considered....