A Formation Control Method for Leader-Follower Aircraft Based on Particle Swarm Optimization

As the defense system of military powers is becoming more and more complete, improving the aircraft’s penetration capabilities is particularly critical. Formation control is an effective way to improve the ability of penetration. Based on an uncontrollable situation, this paper proposes an angle-based formation control strategy for multiple aircraft. The leader’s trajectory inclination angle and trajectory deflection angle are used as the states of consistency, and the tilt angle is used as the control volume, to design the PI controller of the follower. The parameter optimization design is performed through the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The simulation results show that the proposed angle-based formation control method can be well achieved and maintain the formation.