27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-6.4.2

AUTONOMOUS FORMATION FLIGHT USING BIFURCATING POTENTIAL FIELDS

M. Suzuki, K. Uchiyama
Nihon Univ., Japan

Keywords: uav, formation flight, swarm, artificial potential field, bifurcation

We present the guidance methodology using bifurcating artificial potential field for formation flight. This method, which is simple and fast to compute, can allow for different configurations to be formed through a simple parameter change. The aim of this study is to verify its validity through numerical simulation and experiments.

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