Helicopter Formation Control Algorithm for Manned-Unmanned Teaming

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Kurzfassung

Manned-Unmanned Teaming is a future key ability for military and civil use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to increase mission performance. One teaming aspect is the close flight of two helicopters within a shared airspace organized as a mixed formation. The close formation flight creates high crew workload due to maintaining the formation and avoiding collisions lowering the team mission performance. The work presented in this paper approaches this problem and introduces two different formation control strategies implemented as formation controllers to automate the UAS for the formation flight. These formation controllers are able to reduce crew workload, to increase flight safety, and enabled the first coupling of a manned and an unmanned helicopter in a close formation flight during a real flight test campaign. This paper presents, besides flight test results, the design and implementation of the formation strategies and highlights the process of their development, tuning, and testing within a simulation framework. The simulation framework was also used to find suitable safety constraints for the formation controllers and the flight test.

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