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Quad-Rotor UAVs Experiments for Formation Flight

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Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference

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To achieve the experimental verification of our previous formation control algorithm, a formation flight platform based on quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is designed with multi-process communication. A so-called Mission Planner, that is, an open-source UAV ground station program, is redesigned for leader-following formation flying. The experiments without horizontal rotation and with a virtual ground leader are discussed in details.

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  1. School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Heng Zhang & Yang-Yang Chen

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  1. School of Automatic Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

    Yingmin Jia

  2. School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China

    Weicun Zhang

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing, China

    Yongling Fu

  4. Beijing Institute of Precision Mechatronics and Controls, Beijing, China

    Zhiyuan Yu

  5. College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

    Song Zheng

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Zhang, H., Chen, YY. (2022). Quad-Rotor UAVs Experiments for Formation Flight. In: Jia, Y., Zhang, W., Fu, Y., Yu, Z., Zheng, S. (eds) Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 805. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6320-8_8

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