Event-triggered consensus control method with communication faults for multi-UAV

Abstract

This paper investigates the event-triggered consensus for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with communication faults under the assumption that the position sensors of some individuals are damaged. The objective is to make the UAV group reach consensus in urgent tasks such as obstacle avoidance or evasion. Using the Lyapunov stability theory, sufficient conditions to achieve system consensus are given based on different velocity and position interaction topologies. Considering the limited capabilities of sensors and processors, an event-triggered consensus protocol is adopted to reduce the sampling frequency. Finally, simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of our approach.

Keywords

Unmanned aerial vehicle / communication faults / consensus / event-triggered control / interaction topology