A nonlinear model predictive control scheme for cooperative manipulation with singularity and collision avoidance

A Nikou, C Verginis… - … on Control and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of cooperative transportation of an object rigidly grasped
by N robotic agents. In particular, we propose a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) …

Decentralized tube‐based model predictive control of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems

A Nikou, DV Dimarogonas - International Journal of Robust …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper addresses the problem of decentralized tube‐based nonlinear model predictive
control (NMPC) for a general class of uncertain nonlinear continuous‐time multiagent …

Robust decentralised navigation of multi-agent systems with collision avoidance and connectivity maintenance using model predictive controllers

A Filotheou, A Nikou… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of 2nd order
uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace, which is a subset of R 3 …

Communication-based decentralized cooperative object transportation using nonlinear model predictive control

CK Verginis, A Nikou… - 2018 European control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of cooperative transportation of an object rigidly grasped
by N robotic agents. We propose a decentralized Nonlinear Model Predictive Control …

Decentralized control of uncertain multi-agent systems with connectivity maintenance and collision avoidance

A Filotheou, A Nikou… - 2018 European Control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain
nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace, which is subset of R n, with static …

A tube-based MPC scheme for interaction control of underwater vehicle manipulator systems

A Nikou, CK Verginis… - 2018 IEEE/OES …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last years, the development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) with
attached robotic manipulators, the so-called Underwater Vehicle Manipulator System …

Assured learning-based optimal control subject to timed temporal logic constraints

F Fotiadis, CK Verginis… - 2021 60th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop an algorithm for the optimal control of systems governed by unknown, nonlinear
dynamics, to deliver tasks expressed as timed temporal logic constraints. The algorithm first …

Scalable time-constrained planning of multi-robot systems

A Nikou, S Heshmati-Alamdari, DV Dimarogonas - Autonomous Robots, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents a scalable procedure for time-constrained planning of a class of
uncertain nonlinear multi-robot systems. In particular, we consider N robotic agents …

Robust, Fiducial Markers Based Predictive Control Scheme for Infrastructure Inspection with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

A Lynch, J Buzzatto, M Liarokapis… - 2024 International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last decades a lot of research effort has been put into the development of new
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV s) and mobile robots for the inspection of critical …

Robust tube-based model predictive control for time-constrained robot navigation

A Nikou, DV Dimarogonas - 2019 American Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the problem of time-constrained navigation of a robot modeled by
uncertain nonlinear non-affine dynamics in a bounded workspace of ℝ n. Initially, we …