Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [electronic resource] /

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fixed-Wing UAV Model -- Chapter 3. Distributed FTCC of Multi-UAVs With Prescribed Performance -- Chapter 4. Distributed FTCC of Multi-UAVs Under Actuator Fault and Input Saturation -- Chapter 5. Distributed FTCC of Multi-UAVs With Multiple Leader UAVs -- Chapter 6. Distributed Finite-Time FTCC of Multi-UAVs With Multiple Leader UAVs -- Chapter 7. Decentralized Finite-Time Attitude FTCC of Multi-UAVs With Prescribed Performance -- Chapter 8. Decentralized Attitude FTCC of Multi-UAVs Under Directed Communication Topology -- Chapter 9. Decentralized FTCC of Multi-UAVs for Cooperative Forest Fire Monitoring -- Chapter 10. Conclusions and Future Directions.

This book focuses on the fault-tolerant cooperative control (FTCC) of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs). It provides systematic and comprehensive descriptions of FTCC issues in multi-UAVs concerning faults, external disturbances, strongly unknown nonlinearities, and input saturation. Further, it addresses FTCC design from longitudinal motions to attitude motions, and outer-loop position motions of multi-UAVs. The book’s detailed control schemes can be used to enhance the flight safety of multi-UAVs. As such, the book offers readers an in-depth understanding of UAV safety in cooperative/formation flight and corresponding design methods. The FTCC methods presented here can also provide guidelines for engineers to improve the safety of aerospace engineering systems. The book offers a valuable asset for scientists and researchers, aerospace engineers, control engineers, lecturers and teachers, and graduates and undergraduates in the system and control community, especially those working in the field of UAV cooperation and multi-agent systems.