Guidance, Navigation and Control
Zhang Limin, Li Xi, Chai Xuchao, Lu Xiangyang, Liu Ruoyang
Aerospace Control.
2023, 41(1):
60-66.
Aiming at the path optimization problem when the formation of multi-quadrotor UAV remains unchanged, the multi-quadrotor UAV formation is regarded as a virtual rigid body based on the graph theory method in the flight process, and the UAVs in the formation are treated as the constraints of the leader quadrotor UAV. In the optimization process, only the maximum turning radius constraints, formation transformation time constraints and transformed constraints of the leader quadrotor UAV are considered, and the minimum energy required for formation flight is taken as the optimization goal, the track optimization problem of multi quadrotor UAV formation arriving at the target at fixed time is resolved. In this paper, the flight path optimization of the leader quadrotor UAV is implemented based on Gauss pseudo spectrum method, which is transformed into a nonlinear programming problem. The simulation results show that a smooth flight path can be obtained by using the algorithm proposed in this paper, which meets the constraints of timing arrival at the destination, multi UAV performance and environment; the obstacles can be safely bypassed by using obtained track which can improve the survivability of UAV formation and has certain engineering application value.