Fly-by-Logic: Control of Multi-Drone Fleets with Temporal Logic Objectives
Penn collection
Degree type
Discipline
Subject
CPS Theory
CPS Model-Based Design
Multi-drone fleets
control
signal temporal logic
robustness maximization
quadrotors
crazyflie
Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Funder
Grant number
License
Copyright date
Distributor
Related resources
Contributor
Abstract
The problem of safe planning and control for multi- drone systems across a variety of missions is of critical impor- tance, as the scope of tasks assigned to such systems increases. In this paper, we present an approach to solve this problem for multi-quadrotor missions. Given a mission expressed in Signal Temporal Logic (STL), our controller maximizes robustness to generate trajectories for the quadrotors that satisfy the STL spec- ification in continuous-time. We also show that the constraints on our optimization guarantees that these trajectories can be tracked nearly perfectly by lower level off-the-shelf position and attitude controllers. Our approach avoids the oversimplifying abstractions found in many planning methods, while retaining the expressiveness of missions encoded in STL allowing us to handle complex spatial, temporal and reactive requirements. Through experiments, both in simulation and on actual quadrotors, we show the performance, scalability and real-time applicability of our method.