Distributed Cooperative Collision‐Free Tracking Control for 30 Quadrotors Under Internal and External Threats.

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Title: Distributed Cooperative Collision‐Free Tracking Control for 30 Quadrotors Under Internal and External Threats.
Authors: Yang, Guang1 (AUTHOR), Qi, Juntong2 (AUTHOR), Wang, Mingming1 (AUTHOR) wangmm19@tju.edu.cn, Wu, Chong3 (AUTHOR), Guo, Jinjin4 (AUTHOR), Ping, Yuan3 (AUTHOR), Peng, Yan2 (AUTHOR)
Source: Journal of Field Robotics. May2025, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p827-849. 23p.
Subjects: Energy function, Potential energy
Abstract: The high efficiency of multiple quadrotors coordination makes it widely used. However, the technology faces threats from internal collisions as well as external obstacles. This paper proposes a multiquadrotors distributed cooperative collision‐free tracking control framework, which consists of three parts: collision avoidance mechanism, obstacle avoidance mechanism and tracking control. First, in the face of internal and external threats, the collision avoidance function with damping is designed based on Hooke's law. And the potential energy function is designed for multiple quadrotors obstacle avoidance based on bird flock obstacle avoidance. Then, a distributed control protocol is proposed based on consensus theory. Finally, a multi‐quadrotors simulation and experiment platform with the same architecture is built. We deploy the framework on the multiple quadrotor platform and conduct collision avoidance, obstacle avoidance, and encirclement experiments with 30 quadrotors. The experimental results show that the quadrotors can perform the task well. The minimum distance between quadrotors is 0.8022 m, and the minimum distance from obstacles is 0.8866 m, all of which meet the safety distance requirements. Moreover, compared with classical and advanced methods in simulation, our proposed method has the smallest average tracking error, only 0.3019 m, and improves task time by 7.03% and 6.23%, respectively, which verifies the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed framework of distributed cooperative collision avoidance and tracking control for multiple quadrotors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: The high efficiency of multiple quadrotors coordination makes it widely used. However, the technology faces threats from internal collisions as well as external obstacles. This paper proposes a multiquadrotors distributed cooperative collision‐free tracking control framework, which consists of three parts: collision avoidance mechanism, obstacle avoidance mechanism and tracking control. First, in the face of internal and external threats, the collision avoidance function with damping is designed based on Hooke's law. And the potential energy function is designed for multiple quadrotors obstacle avoidance based on bird flock obstacle avoidance. Then, a distributed control protocol is proposed based on consensus theory. Finally, a multi‐quadrotors simulation and experiment platform with the same architecture is built. We deploy the framework on the multiple quadrotor platform and conduct collision avoidance, obstacle avoidance, and encirclement experiments with 30 quadrotors. The experimental results show that the quadrotors can perform the task well. The minimum distance between quadrotors is 0.8022 m, and the minimum distance from obstacles is 0.8866 m, all of which meet the safety distance requirements. Moreover, compared with classical and advanced methods in simulation, our proposed method has the smallest average tracking error, only 0.3019 m, and improves task time by 7.03% and 6.23%, respectively, which verifies the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed framework of distributed cooperative collision avoidance and tracking control for multiple quadrotors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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