Autonomous aerial obstacle avoidance using LiDAR sensor fusion

Q Liang, Z Wang, Y Yin, W Xiong, J Zhang, Z Yang - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The obstacle avoidance problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mainly refers to the
design of a method that can safely reach the target point from the starting point in an …

Distributed differential dynamic programming architectures for large-scale multiagent control

AD Saravanos, Y Aoyama, H Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes two decentralized multiagent optimal control methods that combine the
computational efficiency and scalability of differential dynamic programming (DDP) and the …

Formation control of networked mobile robots with unknown reference orientation

J Zhao, K Zhu, H Hu, X Yu, X Li… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the distributed leader-following formation control problem of networked mobile
robots is investigated. The desired formation is specified by a reference trajectory generated …

Vision-based formation control for an outdoor UAV swarm with hierarchical architecture

L Ma, D Meng, X Huang, S Zhao - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formation control of a UAV swarm is challenging in outdoor GNSS-denied environments
due to the difficulties in accomplishing relative positioning among the UAVs. This study …

Distributed adaptive dynamic event-triggered control for multiple quadrotors

H Wang, J Shan - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies formation control problems for leader–follower multiquadrotor systems
subject to unknown perturbations and limited resources via an event-triggered mechanism …

Asymptotically efficient estimator for range-based robot relative localization

Y Wang, M Lin, X Xie, Y Gao, F Deng… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study investigates the 2-D relative localization problem, which estimates the relative
orientation and position between two moving robots using inter-robot range measurements …

Dissipative Leaderless Formation via Nonfragile Memory Sampled-Data Control for Unmanned Surface Vehicles With Switching Topologies

X Jiang, G Xia - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces the dissipative performance analysis into the formation control design
for multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with exogenous disturbances. All USVs are …

End-to-end decentralized formation control using a graph neural network-based learning method

C Jiang, X Huang, Y Guo - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Multi-robot cooperative control has been extensively studied using model-based distributed
control methods. However, such control methods rely on sensing and perception modules in …

A distributed relative localization approach for air-ground robot formations with onboard sensing

S Güler, İE Yıldırım - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
In a multi-robot system, diversity in the sensing and motion models of robotic entities can
improve the overall performance. While such heterogeneous systems offer peculiar …

Minimally Persistent Graph Generation and Formation Control for Multi-Robot Systems under Sensing Constraints

X Zhao, Q Yang, Q Liu, Y Yin, Y Wei, H Fang - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a minimally persistent graph generation and formation control strategy
for multi-robot systems with sensing constraints. Specifically, each robot has a limited field of …