Towards Establishing and Maintaining Autonomous Quadrotor Formations

Audrow J. Nash, Terrill E. Massey, Christopher J. Wesley, Saketh Simha Kosanam, James M. Conrad

2014

Abstract

Autonomous aerial formations of multiple quadrotors can be used for payload manipulation and surveillance, and often require an external system for computation or control, in order to be decentralized. By having centrally controlled quadrotors, swarm applications can be realized without the limitations of an external system. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to establish a swarm formation of centrally controlled quadrotors. First, a method of localization and motion planning is discussed for a single quadrotor. Next, the behavior of quadrotor swarm formations with centralized control is described. Lastly, the future direction of this research is explained.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nash A., Massey T., Wesley C., Kosanam S. and Conrad J. (2014). Towards Establishing and Maintaining Autonomous Quadrotor Formations . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-040-6, pages 634-639. DOI: 10.5220/0005121606340639

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco14,
author={Audrow J. Nash and Terrill E. Massey and Christopher J. Wesley and Saketh Simha Kosanam and James M. Conrad},
title={Towards Establishing and Maintaining Autonomous Quadrotor Formations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2014},
pages={634-639},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005121606340639},
isbn={978-989-758-040-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Towards Establishing and Maintaining Autonomous Quadrotor Formations
SN - 978-989-758-040-6
AU - Nash A.
AU - Massey T.
AU - Wesley C.
AU - Kosanam S.
AU - Conrad J.
PY - 2014
SP - 634
EP - 639
DO - 10.5220/0005121606340639