Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

Target detection and tracking encompasses a variety of decisional problems such as
coverage, surveillance, search, patrolling, observing and pursuit-evasion along with others …

Within the context of multiple mobile, and networked robot systems, this chapter explores the
current state of the art. After a brief introduction, we first examine architectures for multirobot …

This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a
distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of …

The deployment of multiple robots for achieving a common goal helps to improve the
performance, efficiency, and/or robustness in a variety of tasks. In particular, the observation …

In this paper we present a receding-horizon leader—follower (RH-LF) control framework to
solve the formation problem of multiple non-holonomic mobile robots with a rapid error …

This paper introduces the concepts of distributed intelligence, outlining the motivations for
studying this field of research. We then classify common systems of distributed intelligence …

In this paper, we study minimum-time motion planning and routing problems for the Dubins
vehicle, ie, a nonholonomic vehicle that is constrained to move along planar paths of …

This paper poses the cooperative perimeter-surveillance problem and offers a decentralized
solution that accounts for perimeter growth (expanding or contracting) and insertion/deletion …

We study the traveling salesman problem for a Dubins vehicle. We prove that this problem is
NP-hard, and provide lower bounds on the approximation ratio achievable by some recently …