Flocking with fixed-wing UAVs for distributed sensing: A stochastic optimal control approach

• Published in: 2013 American Control Conference pp. 2025 - 2031
• Main Authors: Quintero, Steven A. P., Collins, Gaemus E., Hespanha, Joao P.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2013
• Subjects: Aircraft; Heuristic algorithms; Optimal control; Sensors; Stochastic processes; Target tracking; Trajectory

This work focuses on enabling multiple UAVs to flock together in order to distribute and collectively perform a given sensing task. Flocking is performed in a leader-follower fashion, and the leader is assumed to already have an effective control policy for the particular task. The UAVs are small fi...