This open access book focuses on cooperative safety control approaches and application for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, addressing the fundamental principles and practical applications of collaborative safety control, with a greater emphasis on the practical application of special tasks. By conducting in-depth research on four key technologies of formation reconstruction, formation maintenance, intelligent obstacle avoidance, and cooperative tracking during the execution of tasks in unmanned clusters, the agility, robustness, and generalization of the swarms can be effectively improved. One of the major features of this book is the use of systematic thinking to combine traditional control with intelligent control methods, and apply them to collaborative safety control of UAV clusters, enhancing the intelligence level of UAVs. It provides solutions and ways of thinking for researchers and engineers in military academies, research institutes, enterprises and institutions to solve practical problems and benefit them.

Jialong Zhang was born in 1990. He (Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree from the North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering, Langfang, China, in 2014, and the M.E. degree from the College of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an, China, in 2017, and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, in 2021. He is an assistant research fellow with the Xi’an satellite control center, Xi'an, China, in 2022. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow with the Test Center, National University of Defense Technology. His main research interest lies in UAV swarm formation flight control and Space situation awareness. Dr. Zhang has been awarded the Best Conference Paper Finalist of IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics & Mechatronics in 2021, and he is Aeronautical society member.

Pu Zhang received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in management science and engineering from the Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, in 2022. In 2021 and 2022, she was a joint Ph.D. student with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, supported by the China Scholarship Council. Her main research interests include multi-agent systems, fault-tolerant control, distributed control, finite-time control, resilient control, and cyber-physical systems.