Research status of coordinated formation flight control for multi-UAVs

Hangkong Xuebao/Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 683-691

  Fan, Qiongjian ^a,b   Yang, Zhong ^a   Fang, Ting ^a   Shen, Chunlin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF AIR FORCE   (China)

Author keywords

Coordinated formation flight; Flight control strategy; Information analysis; Multi unmanned aerial vehicles; Testing

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC COUPLINGS; COOPERATIVE OPERATIONS; COORDINATED FORMATION FLIGHT; CURRENT SITUATIONS; DEVELOPMENT TENDENCIES; DOMESTIC RESEARCHES; FLIGHT CONTROL STRATEGY; FORMATION DESIGNS; FORMATION RECONFIGURATIONS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MULTI-PLATFORM SYSTEMS; MULTI-UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; OPERATION MODES; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH AREAS; RESEARCH RESULTS; RESEARCH TOPICS; TRAJECTORY PLANNING;

GAS DYNAMICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SPACECRAFT;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 65549149226     PISSN: 10006893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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