Robust H∞ Team Formation Tracking Design Methods of Large-Scale UAV Networked Control Systems

This book introduces the centralized robust H∞ team formation tracking control strategy of multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) network system under intrinsic random fluctuation, time-varying delay and packet dropout in wireless communication, and external disturbance. A simple robust decentralized H∞ proportional-integral-derivative (PID) reference tracking network control strategy is introduced for practical applications of team formation of large-scale UAV under control saturation constraint, external disturbance, and vortex coupling. It provides practical design procedures based on linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) solvable via LMI TOOLBOX in MATLAB®.

Features:

• Focuses on the stabilization of a QUAV under finite-time switching model control (SMC)
• Discusses robustness control design for formation tracking in UAV networks
• Introduces different robust centralized and decentralized H∞ attack-tolerant observer-based reference team formation tracking control of large-scale UAVs
• Reviews practical case studies in each chapter to introduce the design procedures
• Includes design examples of team formation of 25 quadrotor UAVs and a team formation example of five hybrid quadrotor/biped robot sub-teams

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in control and electrical engineering.

Bor-Sen Chen received B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1970, and M.S. degree of geophysics from the National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan in 1973, and Ph.D degree from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1982. From 1973 to 1987, he had been a lecturer, associate professor, and professor of Tatung Institute of Technology. From 1987, he has been a professor, chair professor and Tsing Hua distinguished chair professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. His research interests include robust control theory and engineering design, robust signal processing and communication system design, systems biology and their applications.