Cooperative Control of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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Abstract
One of the modern control principle applied in automatic flight control systems is the cooperative control of vehicles, among those of the UAVs. In the cooperative control meaning, vehicles cooperate to reach their control goals with the maximum of efficiency of the fleet they created. Such control goals might be like aerial refuelling, formation flight, reaching designated areas in proper time etc. The purpose of the author is to describe one of these flight missions ensuring collision-free autonomous manoeuvres of two UAVs in order to conduct their flight mission successfully.
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