Environment-Adaptive Synergistic Swarm With Flexible Obstacle Avoidance via Active and Passive Strategy

The fascinating collective behaviors of natural swarm systems have inspired extensive studies on configuration generation of drone swarm. In this article, we propose a synergistic swarm algorithm (SSA) to realize stable spacing configuration and consistent flight of drones. In order to cope with complex mission requirements and achieve safe and fast flight in dense environments, we further propose a flexible obstacle avoidance (FOA) strategy via passive and active environmental adaption. passive obstacle avoidance algorithm provides drones with self-adaptive forces along drone-obstacle linkages for getting rid of dangerous position and keeping swarm safe. active obstacle avoidance algorithm provides drones with lateral forces at a certain distance for correcting course of traversal and keeping swarm rapid. We carried out a series of simulation experiments, including swarms of up to 16 drones in mass point model and of up to four drones in six degrees of freedom model. Simulation results illustrated that our strategy and algorithms can ensure fast flight speed and safety of the swarm in dense environments.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

• Publication date

  2025-10-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/TSMC.2025.3594546
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