Flocking with fixed-wing UAVs for distributed sensing: A stochastic optimal control approach

SAP Quintero, GE Collins… - 2013 American Control …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work focuses on enabling multiple UAVs to flock together in order to distribute and
collectively perform a given sensing task. Flocking is performed in a leader-follower fashion …

Robots that sync and swarm: A proof of concept in ROS 2

A Barciś, M Barciś, C Bettstetter - … International Symposium on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A unified mathematical model for synchronisation and swarming has recently been
proposed. Each system entity, called a “swarmalator”, coordinates its internal phase and …

On the scalability of vision-based drone swarms in the presence of occlusions

F Schilling, E Soria, D Floreano - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision-based drone swarms have recently emerged as a promising alternative to address
the fault-tolerance and flexibility limitations of centralized and communication-based aerial …

Multiple UAV distributed close formation control based on in-flight leadership hierarchies of pigeon flocks

H Qiu, H Duan - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Owing to the similarity between bird flocks and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms
among intelligence, autonomy and local interactions, the collective motion mechanisms in …

Swarm coordination of mini-UAVs for target search using imperfect sensors

AL Alfeo, MGCA Cimino… - Intelligent Decision …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential to support search tasks in
unstructured environments. Small, lightweight, low speed and agile UAVs, such as …

[PDF][PDF] 无人机自主集群技术研究展望

段海滨, 邱华鑫, 陈琳, 魏晨 - 科技导报, 2018 - kjdb.org
摘要动态不确定环境和复杂任务决定了无人机系统势必朝着集群化, 自主化和智能化方向发展,
具备共识自主性的无人机集群可无需任何集中规划或直接通信完成复杂智能行为 …

Dynamic pathfinding for a swarm intelligence based UAV control model using particle swarm optimisation

LM Pyke, CR Stark - Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In recent years unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become smaller, cheaper, and more
efficient, enabling the use of multiple autonomous drones where previously a single, human …

Design and simulation of the emergent behavior of small drones swarming for distributed target localization

AL Alfeo, MGCA Cimino, N De Francesco… - Journal of computational …, 2018 - Elsevier
A swarm of autonomous drones with self-coordination and environment adaptation can offer
a robust, scalable and flexible manner to localize objects in an unexplored, dangerous or …

Self-organized evasive fountain maneuvers with a bioinspired underwater robot collective

F Berlinger, P Wulkop, R Nagpal - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several animal species self-organize into large groups to leverage vital behaviors such as
foraging, construction, or predator evasion. With the advancement of robotics and …

The influence of limited visual sensing on the reynolds flocking algorithm

E Soria, F Schiano, D Floreano - 2019 Third IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The interest in multi-drone systems flourished in the last decade and their application is
promising in many fields. We believe that in order to make drone swarms flying smoothly …