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Decentralized linear time-varying model predictive control of a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles

Bemporad, Alberto and Rocchi, Claudio Decentralized linear time-varying model predictive control of a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles. In: Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC). IEEE, 7488 -7493. ISBN 978-1-61284-800-6 (2011)

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Abstract

This paper proposes a hierarchical MPC approach to stabilization and autonomous navigation of a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), under constraints on motor thrusts, angles and positions, and under collision avoidance constraints. Each vehicle is of quadcopter type and is stabilized by a local linear time-invariant (LTI) MPC controller at the lower level of the control hierarchy around commanded desired set-points. These are generated at the higher level and at a slower sampling rate by a linear time-varying (LTV) MPC controller per vehicle, based on an a simplified dynamical model of the stabilized UAV and a novel algorithm for convex under-approximation of the feasible space. Formation flying is obtained by running the above decentralized scheme in accordance with a leader-follower approach. The performance of the hierarchical control scheme is assessed through simulations, and compared to previous work in which a hybrid MPC scheme is used for planning paths on-line.

Item Type: Book Section
Identification Number: 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160521
Additional Information: This work was partially supported by the European Space Agency through project “ROBMPC – Robust Model Predictive Control for Space Constrained Systems"
Uncontrolled Keywords: autonomous aerial vehicles , collision avoidance , decentralised control, linear systems, motion control, predictive control, sampling methods, stability, time-varying systems
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
Research Area: Computer Science and Applications
Depositing User: Ms T. Iannizzi
Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2012 08:41
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2012 08:41
URI: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/1254

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