Abstract
Micro air vehicle(MAV) has marked potentials for aerial surveillance becuase of its low cost of operation, high portability, and low risk of injury by crash over residential aea. MAV, however, has an inevitable limit of performance owing to the insufficient payload and susceptibility to aerial disturbances. The application of collective motion control to multiple MAVs is proposed here to solve this problem, integrating individuals' performances to realize high capability and reliability for various missions. Biologically inspired collective motion control is incorporated here and the simulation results clarifies its ability to realize various collective motions, e.g. loitering or shape control, by using simple interaction parameters, as well as the robustness to the change of MAV numbers in operation.
