@inproceedings{799b7caf648649e79b3d1efb25b8042b,
title = "Moving target tracking of a UAV formation",
abstract = "This paper presents a new approach to formation control of a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to track a moving target in dynamic environment based on the artificial potential field method combined with Lyapunov vectors method and rotation vectors. Every UAV moves to the balance points on the spherical surface whose center is the virtual leader. The tangent vector leads the UAV avoid the obstacle with smooth trajectories. After passing the obstacle, the formation can be reconfigured and continued to track the target. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been verified in simulations.",
keywords = "path planning, track of moving target, unmanned aerial vehicle",
author = "Kai Chang and Yuanqing Xia and Kaoli Huang and Dailiang Ma",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 28th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2016 ; Conference date: 28-05-2016 Through 30-05-2016",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1109/CCDC.2016.7531412",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 28th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2016",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2542--2547",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2016",
address = "United States",
}