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Combining the latest biological results of behavior of intensive flight of starlings, this paper presents topological formation structure and an improved particle swarm algorithm based on the flight mechanism of starlings and its application to the formation of UAV cluster. It also proposes an approach of controling formation behavior of UAVs based on the improved artificial potential fields method. Through simulation experiments, the comparative results are given for verifying the efficiency of formation missions of our methods, as well as simulation of cluster behavior of aggregation and dispersion. The results provide technical assistance for simulation of autonomous collaborative formation of large-scale UAV cluster.
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This work was partially supported by Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under grant No. sast2017-03 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under grant No. 2042017gf0070.
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Xie, R., Gu, C., Liu, L., Chen, L., Zhang, L. (2018). Large Scale UAVs Collaborative Formation Simulation Based on Starlings’ Flight Mechanism. In: U, L., Xie, H. (eds) Web and Big Data. APWeb-WAIM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01298-4_7
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