Formation control of unmanned aerial vehicles in presence of obstacles

The objective of this project is to develop a novel distributed constrained control architecture to address the obstacle avoidance problem for rotating wings unmanned aerial vehicles.
In the first phase, the objective is to realize an experimental setup where formations of UAVs can be reproduced and tested. This will be realized at the host supervisor’s research lab at Concordia University which is already equipped with an indoor GPS system (BitCraze Loco Positioning System) and two drones (BitCraze 2.0). The first phase will be concluded implementing, in laboratory, at least one state-of-art solution to the considered research problem. Then, we will develop a novel control strategy that aims at achieving a flexible formation topology that can be properly reorganized whenever obstacle occurrences occlude the path. In a third phase, by exploiting the test-bed flight scenario built in the first phase of the project, we will experimentally compare the performance of the proposed controller with existing ones […]

Faculty Supervisor:

Walter Lucia

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Partner:

University of Calabria

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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