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Jun Yang, Ximan Wang, Simone Baldi, Satish Singh and Stefano Farì, "A Software-in-the-Loop Implementation of Adaptive Formation Control for Fixed-Wing UAVs," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1230-1239, Sept. 2019. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2019.1911702
Citation: Jun Yang, Ximan Wang, Simone Baldi, Satish Singh and Stefano Farì, "A Software-in-the-Loop Implementation of Adaptive Formation Control for Fixed-Wing UAVs," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1230-1239, Sept. 2019. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2019.1911702

A Software-in-the-Loop Implementation of Adaptive Formation Control for Fixed-Wing UAVs

doi: 10.1109/JAS.2019.1911702
Funds:  This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (4007019109) (RECON-STRUCT), the Special Guiding Funds for Double First-class (4007019201), and the Joint TU Delft - CSSC Project ‘Multi-agent Coordination with Networked Constraints’ (MULTI-COORD). The first two authors equally contributed to this work
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  • This paper discusses the design and software-in-the-loop implementation of adaptive formation controllers for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with parametric uncertainty in their structure, namely uncertain mass and inertia. In fact, when aiming at autonomous flight, such parameters cannot assumed to be known as they might vary during the mission (e.g. depending on the payload). Modeling and autopilot design for such autonomous fixed-wing UAVs are presented. The modeling is implemented in Matlab, while the autopilot is based on ArduPilot, a popular open-source autopilot suite. Specifically, the ArduPilot functionalities are emulated in Matlab according to the Ardupilot documentation and code, which allows us to perform software-in-the-loop simulations of teams of UAVs embedded with actual autopilot protocols. An overview of realtime path planning, trajectory tracking and formation control resulting from the proposed platform is given. The software-inthe-loop simulations show the capability of achieving different UAV formations while handling uncertain mass and inertia.

     

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    • Adaptive formation controllers for fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
    • Design and software-in-the-loop implementation.
    • Parametric uncertainty in the UAV structure, namely uncertain mass and inertia.
    • The autopilot is based on ArduPilot, a popular open-source autopilot suite.
    • The ArduPilot functionalities are emulated in Matlab according to the Ardupilot code.

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