The invention relates to a
flight formation cooperative
adaptive tracking control method based on a
virtual leader, and belongs to the field of formation flight control. According to the method, a virtual
pilot unmanned aerial vehicle coordination strategy is introduced, the relative position of each unmanned aerial vehicle and a
pilot is set as feedback information, control input is designed by adopting a
backstepping method, and coordinated trajectory tracking is realized according to a
flight formation. A neural network is adopted to estimate dynamics uncertainty, online data is collected to construct prediction error evaluation
estimation capability, and a neural network weight adaptive updating law is designed in combination with a
tracking error. According to the method, the influence of the problem of dynamic uncertainty of the model in the formation
flight process of the multi-unmanned aerial vehicle
system on the tracking performance is considered, a composite
estimation algorithm based on
data analysis is designed, the precision of
uncertainty estimation is enhanced, and a new technical approach is provided for improving the formation flight performance.