UAV Formation Adjustment Strategy Based on Greedy Criterion

Abstract

In order to ensure that the UAV cluster remains electromagnetically silent during the attempted formation flight, so that the emission of electromagnetic wave signalsj is minimised, a purely azimuthal passive positioning method can be used to adjust the position of the UAVs. As it is difficult to keep the UAVs in formation flying on the same horizontal plane for a long time and the initial position information of the UAVs is not known. Therefore, this paper uses the sine and cosine theorems of in-plane triangles to connect slightly deviating UAVs to a determined UAV position, and in combination with the characteristics of the model, constructs a greedy criterion based on the minimum number of UAVs required to transmit the signal, and in this way gives an adjustment scheme for the UAV position.