Distributed Observer-Based Simultaneous Fault Detection and Formation Control of Multi-UAVs

This paper studies the formation control and simultaneous fault detection of multi-UAVs. Firstly, a distributed observer is constructed for the second-order particle model of each UAV. Secondly, a novel formation controller is designed based on the distributed observer. Then, the faulty UAV is detected by the residual signal. Finally, based on Lyapunov theory and Projection Lemma, sufficient conditions for UAVs formation are obtained. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by simulation.