[HTML][HTML] A survey on swarming with micro air vehicles: Fundamental challenges and constraints

M Coppola, KN McGuire, C De Wagter… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on radio frequency based precise localisation technology for UAV in GPS-denied environment

B Yang, E Yang - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2021 - Springer
Owing to the specific characteristics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the demands and
applications increase dramatically for them being deployed in confined or closed space for …

Ultra-wideband and odometry-based cooperative relative localization with application to multi-UAV formation control

K Guo, X Li, L Xie - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This puts forth an infrastructure-free cooperative relative localization (RL) for unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) in global positioning system (GPS)-denied environments. Instead of …

Decentralized visual-inertial-uwb fusion for relative state estimation of aerial swarm

H Xu, L Wang, Y Zhang, K Qiu… - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The collaboration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has become a popular research topic
for its practicability in multiple scenarios. The collaboration of multiple UAVs, which is also …

Autonomous exploration and mapping system using heterogeneous UAVs and UGVs in GPS-denied environments

H Qin, Z Meng, W Meng, X Chen, H Sun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel integrated vehicular system using collaborative unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for autonomous exploration …

Omni-swarm: A decentralized omnidirectional visual–inertial–uwb state estimation system for aerial swarms

H Xu, Y Zhang, B Zhou, L Wang, X Yao… - Ieee transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized state estimation is one of the most fundamental components of autonomous
aerial swarm systems in GPS-denied areas; yet, it remains a highly challenging research …

A comparative study of bug algorithms for robot navigation

KN McGuire, GCHE de Croon, K Tuyls - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a literature survey and a comparative study of Bug Algorithms, with the
goal of investigating their potential for robotic navigation. At first sight, these methods seem …

Fixed-time observer based safety control for a quadrotor UAV

S Zhou, K Guo, X Yu, L Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fixed-time observer-based safety control strategy for quadrotor
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) against multiple actuator faults and unknown …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of robot swarms' relative localization method

S Chen, D Yin, Y Niu - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
For robot swarm applications, accurate positioning is one of the most important requirements
for avoiding collisions and keeping formations and cooperation between individuals …

Relative position estimation between two UWB devices with IMUs

CC Cossette, M Shalaby, D Saussié… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For a team of robots to work collaboratively, it is crucial that each robot have the ability to
determine the position of their neighbors, relative to themselves, in order to execute tasks …