Multiple UAV Formations for Cooperative Source Seeking and Contour Mapping of a Radiative Signal Field

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems

Volume

74

Issue

1-2

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Publication Date

4-1-2014

First Page

323

Last Page

332

Abstract

In this paper, four scenarios are presented for cooperative source seeking and contour mapping of a radiative signal field by multiple UAV formations. A source seeking strategy is adopted with saturation, and then it is modified to achieve contour mapping of the signal field with the moving source situation considered. A formation controller used for consensus problem is simplified and applied in the scenarios to stabilize the multiple UAV formation flight during source detection. The contour mapping strategy and the formation control algorithm are combined to guarantee stable source seeking and contour mapping in both circular flight path and square flight path via multiple UAV formations.

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