Unmanned aerial vehicles collaborative control method based on improved gradient strategy for multiple virtual structures control
This paper proposes a method for cooperative formation control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs).It takes virtual structure control as the framework and combines the gradient strategy method to design the reward function and penalty function,which are regarded as a kind of gravitational force and repulsive force and applied to the UAVs cooperative formation control system to solve the problem of reduced stability and coordination of the UAVs cluster due to an increase in the number of formations under multiple virtual structure control points.This method not only ensures collaborative movement of UAVs formation,but also maintains stable formation transformation during the movement while preventing collisions between members within the cluster.The effectiveness of this method was verified through simulation of UAVs formation system with control inputs.