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 …

Swarm robotics deals with the design, construction, and deployment of large groups of
robots that coordinate and cooperatively solve a problem or perform a task. It takes …

Recent advances in technology lead to the use of robotic systems as part of the modern
working environment. Single and multiple robotic systems work closely with humans to …

Unmanned vehicles (UVs) play a key role in autonomous surveillance scenarios. A major
task needed by these UVs in undertaking autonomous patrol missions is to detect the targets …

Autonomous microhelicopters will soon play a major role in tasks like search and rescue,
environment monitoring, security surveillance, and inspection. If they are further realized in …

This paper addresses the problem of multi-agent coordination and control under multiple
objectives, and presents a set-theoretic formulation amenable to Lyapunov-based analysis …

Energy efficient operation of microgrids, a localized grouping of controllable loads with
distributed energy resources like solar photovoltaic panels, requires the development of …

The design of decentralized controllers coping with the typical constraints on the inter-robot
sensing/communication capabilities represents a promising direction in multi-robot research …

The purpose of this paper is to propose a distributed control scheme to maximize area
coverage by a mobile robot network while ensuring reliable communication between the …

This paper addresses the cooperative problems in terms of localization, obstacle avoidance
planning and automatic leveling control for a cable parallel robot for multiple mobile cranes …