TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is achieving a leader–follower formation of unmanned aerial vehicles which is a cooperative scenario inspired by formation flying of living organisms such as geese. Designing a control strategy based on only vision measurement (without radio communication) and keeping connectivity in vision are important challenges in the formation flying problem which is the base of formation flying in living organisms.Design/methodology/approach To achieve the mentioned purposes, a feedback linearization technique is used. Moreover, a Takagi-Sugeno-based supervisory control strategy for visibility maintenance combined with an acceleration estimator to compensate the leader maneuvers is proposed.Findings The authors conclude that by using practical seeker sensors, all the mentioned objectives (under the proposed strategy) can be satisfied.Originality/value Keeping formation and visibility maintenance in the presence of the leader maneuver are the main contributions of the paper.
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SN  - 0144-5154
DO  - 10.1108/AA-09-2015-074
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/AA-09-2015-074
AU  - Ali Dehghani Mohammad
AU  - Bagher Menhaj Mohammad
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Takagi-Sugeno system for supervisory formation control of seeker mounted unmanned aerial vehicles
T2  - Assembly Automation
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 111
EP  - 119
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -