Demonstration and Verification System for UAV Formation Control

In order to validate the control method of UAV formation, a demonstration system of UAV formation control is built outdoors. The system consists of satellite, UAV, ground control station and data link. The demonstration and verification system uses two sets of ground control stations and data links to ensure the system complete functionality and security, which can achieve a variety of network topology, and achieve the existence of communication delay and communication failure UAV control. By using the idea of encapsulation and hierarchical control, a highly developed UAV control system is designed to make the demonstration and verification system strong expansibility and the ability to control heterogeneous UAVs. Finally, taking quadrotor as an experimental platform, with a leader of the flocking control algorithm, which verify the function of the demonstration and verification system. The verification results show that the demonstration and system can effectively verify the performance of UAV formation control algorithm.