Distributed Cooperative Control for Human-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Teaming in Target Tracking*

Over the last decade, the relationship between humans and cyber-physical systems has grown closer, particularly in fields such as manufacturing and transportation. This paper presents a control framework within the engineering domain, wherein a human operator collaborates with a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve a shared goal. First, we construct a human-swarm mutual trust model that empowers both parties with a degree of autonomy. Second, we adopt a distributed optimization algorithm integrated with control barrier functions to manage the swarm's motion. The cooperative control framework is demonstrated in a 3D scenario, and simulation results verify the feasibility of the proposed method.