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Mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MUAVs) are becoming popular research platform and
drawing considerable attention, particularly during the last decade due to their afford- ability and multi-dimensional applications in almost every walk of life. MUAVs have obvious advantages over manned platforms including their much lower manufacturing and operational costs, risk avoidance for human pilots, flying safely low and slow, and realization of operations that are beyond inherent human limitations. The advancement in Micro Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) technology, Avionics and miniaturization of sensors also played a significant role in the evolution of MUAVs. These vehicles range from simple toys found at electronic supermarkets for entertainment purpose to highly sophisticated commercial platforms performing novel assignments like offshore wind power station inspection and 3D modelling of buildings etc. MUAVs are also more environment friendly as they cause less air pollution and noise. Unmanned is therefore unmatched. Recent research focuses on use of multiple inexpensive vehicles flying together, while maintaining required relative separations, to carry out the tasks efficiently compared to a single exorbitant vehicle. Redundancy also does away the risk of loss of a single whole-mission dependent vehicle. Some of the valuable applications in the domain of cooperative control include joint load transportation, search and rescue, mobile communication relays, pesticide spraying and weather monitoring etc. Though realization of multi-UAV coupled flight is complex, however obvious advantages justify
the laborious work involved...
Mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MUAVs) are becoming popular research platform and drawing considerable attention, particularly during the last decade due to their multi-dimensional applications in almost every walk of life. MUAVs range from simple toys found at electronic supermarkets for entertainment purpose to highly sophisticated commercial platforms performing novel assignments like offshore wind power station inspection and 3D modelling of buildings. This paper presents an overview of the main aspects in the domain of distributed control of cooperating MUAVs to facilitate the potential users in this fascinating field. Furthermore it gives an overview on state of the art in MUAV technologies e.g. Photonic Mixer Devices (PMD) camera, distributed control methods and on-going work and challenges, which is the motivation for many researchers all over the world to work in this field.