Swarm Flight Control for Multiple Drones Using Boids Algorithm with Parameters Tuned by GA

Abstract

This research aims at the realization of swarm flight control which is useful in the field of agriculture and amusement and so on. The swarm flight control simulation according to human operation using the flocking algorithm Boids well-known for the group behavior simulation of birds and fish was performed in this research. Boids is a kind of computer algorithm expressing swarm flight of birds based on three basic rules. In this research the parameters of three basic rules of Boids were tuned by GA. Moreover the experiment of evaluation for the operationability was performed after an operator controls one or multiple drones.