Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Formation Control Based on Prescribed-time Consensus Theory

Junhui LI; Wei WANG; Yuchen WANG; Yi JI

doi:10.12382/bgxb.2024.0863

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- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Formation Control Based on Prescribed-time Consensus Theory
- Acta Armamentarii Vol. 46, Issue 8, Pages: 240863(2025)
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  1. 北京理工大学空天科学与技术学院, 北京 100081
  2. 北京理工大学先进结构技术研究院, 北京 100081
  3. 北京信息科技大学自动化学院, 北京 100192
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- DOI：10.12382/bgxb.2024.0863
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- Received：19 September 2024，
  
  Published Online：28 August 2025，
  
  Published：31 August 2025
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Junhui LI, Wei WANG, Yuchen WANG, et al. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Formation Control Based on Prescribed-time Consensus Theory[J]. Acta Armamentarii, 2025, 46(8): 240863.
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Junhui LI, Wei WANG, Yuchen WANG, et al. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Formation Control Based on Prescribed-time Consensus Theory[J]. Acta Armamentarii, 2025, 46(8): 240863. DOI： 10.12382/bgxb.2024.0863.

摘要

无人机编队可以实现复杂的集体任务

降低单个无人机的风险和操作难度。针对三维场景下的无人机集群编队控制问题

基于预设时间稳定理论和多智能体一致性理论

设计领-从结构下的分布式编队复合控制方法。通过分析无人机实际输入与等效控制之间的关系

建立多机运动学模型。为提高无人机对外部扰动的鲁棒性

结合自抗扰控制理论设计一种预设时间收敛扩张状态观测器

实现对扰动的在线估计。进一步

考虑到只有与领航者连通的跟随者能获取领航者的状态信息

提出一种预设时间收敛的分布式估计器

以快速估计领航者的状态。结合观测器及估计器的输出

提出一种预设时间收敛的一致性编队控制协议

并通过Lyapunov理论证明闭环系统的预设时间稳定性。通过构建数值仿真实验

验证了新方法的有效性。研究结果表明

新设计的控制方法在存在外部扰动的情况下可以实现预设时间内稳定的无人机编队协同控制。

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formation can execute complex collective tasks and reduce the risk and operation difficulty of a single UAV. A distributed formation compound control method with the leader-follower structure is designed based on the prescribed-time stability theory and multi-agent consensus theory for the control of UAV swarm formation in three-dimensional scene.Firstly

a multi-UAVs kinematic model is established by analyzing the relationship between the actual input and the equivalent control.In order to enhance the robustness of UAVs against external disturbances

a prescribed-time convergent extended state observer is designed to achieve online estimation of disturbance based on active disturbance rejection control theory.Furthermore

considering that only the followers connecting to the leader can access the leader's state information

a prescribed-time convergent distributed estimator is introduced to rapidly estimate the leader's state.On this basis

a prescribed-time convergent consensus formation control algorithm is proposed combined with the outputs of the observer and the estimator

and the prescribed-time stability of closed-loop system is proved by Lyapunov theory.The simulated results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.The research results show that the proposed control method can achieve the stable cooperative control of UAV formation within a preset time in the presence of external disturbances.

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