Dynamic Event-Triggered Formation Control for Multiple Quadrotor UAVs

This paper deals with the formation control problem for a group of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through a modified dynamic event-triggered control protocol. The stability proof for the state space origin of the overall closed-loop system is derived from the singular perturbation method and Lyapunov stability theory. An event-triggered formation control protocol in terms of a dynamically varying threshold parameter is delicately carried out while acquiring satisfactory resource efficiency, and Zeno behavior of triggering time sequences is excluded. Finally, simulations on four quadrotor UAVs are given to verify the effectiveness of the theoretical results.