Cooperation and Consensus Seeking for Teams of Unmanned Air Vehicles

Abstract

This report describes research in the area of cooperative control of unmanned air vehicles carried out at Brigham Young University with the support of AFOSR during the period from April 2004 to March 2007. Our research focused on cooperative control of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). Under this AFOSR supported effort, we have sought to accomplish three primary objectives: 1) extend our current theoretical approach to encompass broader classes of cooperative control problems, 2) develop strategies for building consensus among a team of vehicles with inconsistent sensory information, and 3) experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of our cooperative control strategies on a team of small UAVs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA470589

Entities

People

  • Randal W. Beard
  • Timothy W. Mclain

Organizations

  • Brigham Young University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computational Science
  • Control Systems
  • Cooperative Control
  • Guidance
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Kalman Filters
  • Measurement
  • Micro Air Vehicles
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - UAVs