A review on fault-tolerant cooperative control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles

This paper presents the recent developments in Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Control(FTCC)of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(multi-UAVs).To facilitate the analyses of FTCC methods for multi-UAVs.the formation control strategies under fault-free flight conditions of multi-UAVs are first summarized and analyzed,including the leader-following,behavior-based,virtual structure,collision avoidance,algebraic graph-based,and close formation control methods,which are viewed as the cooperative control methods for multi-UAVs at the pre-fault stage.Then,by considering the various faults encountered by the multi-UAVs,the state-of-the-art developments on individual,leader-following,and distributed FTCC schemes for multi-UAVs are reviewed in detail.Finally,conclusions and challenging issues towards future developments are presented.