Review of Autonomous Cooperative Control Methods for UAV Cluster Formation
Autonomous cooperative control is a mainstream control method to realize efficient cooperative formation of UAV cluster,which is a hot and difficult research topic in UAV control field.This paper starts with two main types of autonomous coopera-tive control of UAV cluster formation.Then,the basic ideas,characteristics and the latest research progress of the typical methods such as the leader-follower method,the virtual structure method in the centralized control type and the artificial potential field meth-od,the behavior method,the consistency theory method and the deep reinforcement learning method in the distributed control type are analyzed.Finally,the development trend of autonomous cooperative control method of UAV cluster formation is prospected,which provides reference for the subsequent research.