Understanding atmospheric transport and dispersal events has an important role in a range
of scenarios. Of particular importance is aiding in emergency response after an intentional or …

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 …

This paper addresses the design of mobile sensor networks for optimal data collection. The
development is strongly motivated by the application to adaptive ocean sampling for an …

Operations with multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have a variety of
underwater applications. For example, a coordinated group of vehicles with environmental …

We describe a framework for the design of collective behaviors for groups of identical mobile
agents. The approach is based on decentralized simultaneous estimation and control …

Local meteorological conditions including wind speed and turbulence significantly influence
the dispersion of pollutant plumes, introducing severe difficulties in predicting its trajectory …

Autonomous mobile sensor networks are employed to measure large-scale environmental
fields. Yet an optimal strategy for mission design addressing both the cooperative motion …

Cooperating mobile sensors can be used to model environmental functions such as the
temperature or salinity of a region of ocean. In this paper, we adopt an optimal filtering …

In this brief, we propose and analyze an algorithm to monitor an environmental boundary
with mobile agents. The objective is to optimally approximate the boundary with a polygon …

A class of underwater vehicles are modelled as Newtonian particles for navigation and
control. We show a general method that controls cooperative Newtonian particles to …