• DocumentCode
    1975242
  • Title

    Development of an Experimental Testbed for Multiple Vehicles Formation Flight Control

  • Author

    Shan, Jinjun ; Liu, Hugh H T

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Aerosp. Studies, Toronto Univ., Ont.
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    28-31 Aug. 2005
  • Firstpage
    160
  • Lastpage
    164
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the development of an experimental testbed for multiple vehicles formation control. This four 3-DOF helicopter-testbed in the Flight Systems and Control (FSC) Laboratory of University of Toronto can be applied to validate the effectiveness of formation flight and cooperative (coordination) control strategy. Each helicopter has three degrees of freedom, in elevation, pitch and travel motion respectively. Two experimental schemes and results of the classical leader-follower and cooperative configurations are presented and discussed
  • Keywords
    aircraft control; attitude control; helicopters; motion control; position control; cooperative configuration; cooperative control; coordination control; elevation; flight control; formation flight; helicopter; leader-follower configuration; multiple vehicle formation control; pitch; travel motion; Aerospace control; Control systems; DC motors; Helicopters; Laboratories; Multichip modules; Power capacitors; Propellers; Testing; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control Applications, 2005. CCA 2005. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, Ont.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9354-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCA.2005.1507118
  • Filename
    1507118