Cooperative control of multiple unmanned aerial systems for heavy duty carrying

YH Tan, S Lai, K Wang, BM Chen - Annual Reviews in Control, 2018 - Elsevier
The idea of cooperative carrying using a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has
been viewed as a widely applicable and deployable use of unmanned multi-agent systems …

Accurate 3D localization for MAV swarms by UWB and IMU fusion

J Li, Y Bi, K Li, K Wang, F Lin… - 2018 IEEE 14th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by applications like Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), driver-less cars, etc, localization
solution has become an active research topic in the past decade. In recent years, Ultra …

Path planning of collision avoidance for unmanned ground vehicles: A nonlinear model predictive control approach

P Hang, S Huang, X Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In addition to the safety of collision avoidance, the safety of lateral stability is another critical
issue for unmanned ground vehicles in the high-speed condition. This article presents an …

Design and implementation of a hybrid UAV with model-based flight capabilities

Y Ke, K Wang, BM Chen - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid UAV is an attractive design concept in the last decade for its superiority in combining
vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and cruise flight capabilities. In this paper, we present a …

A survey of motion and task planning techniques for unmanned multicopter systems

M Lan, S Lai, TH Lee, BM Chen - Unmanned Systems, 2021 - World Scientific
Unmanned aerial systems provide many applications with the ability to perform flying tasks
autonomously, and hence have received significant research and commercial attention in …

A review of the informative path planning, autonomous exploration and route planning using UAV in environment monitoring

MAA dos Santos, KCT Vivaldini - … International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used in several applications for monitoring
environments and mapping. To carry out the mapping of these environments, the UAV …

High-precision multi-UAV teaming for the first outdoor night show in Singapore

KZY Ang, X Dong, W Liu, G Qin, S Lai, K Wang… - Unmanned …, 2018 - World Scientific
Advancement in the development of automation in aerial robotics has created endless
applications today by utilizing autonomous drones, or in other words, unmanned aerial …

Safety-critical rapid aerial exploration of unknown environments

A Singletary, T Gurriet, P Nilsson… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper details a novel approach to collision avoidance for aerial vehicles that enables
high-speed flight in uncertain environments. This framework is applied at the controller level …

A lightweight autonomous MAV for indoor search and rescue

Y Bi, M Lan, J Li, S Lai, BM Chen - Asian Journal of Control, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) have great potentials to be applied for indoor search
and rescue missions. In this paper, we propose a modular lightweight design of an …

UAV path re-planning based on improved bidirectional RRT algorithm in dynamic environment

L Meng, S Qing, ZQ Jun - 2017 3rd International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An improved bidirectional RRT algorithm is proposed to solve the problem of path re-
planning in a dynamic environment. The off-line path planning is carried out before the UAV …