Real-time constraint-based planning and control of robotic manipulators for safe human–robot collaboration

K Merckaert, B Convens, MM Nicotra… - Robotics and Computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
A recent trend in industrial robotics is to have robotic manipulators working side-by-side with
human operators. A challenging aspect of this coexistence is that the robot is required to …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring of rivers and streams conditions using biological indices with emphasis on Algae: a comprehensive descriptive review toward river management

E Atazadeh - River Basin Management-Under a Changing Climate, 2023 - intechopen.com
Algal communities are robust indicators of the effect and impact of environmental flows on
river-dependent ecosystems as they deflect directly and indirectly those physical chemical …

A Terminal State Feasibility Governor for Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Over Arbitrary Horizons

B Convens, D Liao-McPherson… - … on Control Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces a novel feasibility governor (FG), which enlarges the region of
attraction (ROA) of a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) setpoint regulation law with …

Practical and safe navigation function based motion planning of UAVs

H Sinhmar, M Greiff, S Di Cairano - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper offers a practical method for certifiably safe operations of an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) with limited power and computation, useful for real-time operations where the …

[HTML][HTML] A constrained control framework for unmanned aerial vehicles based on Explicit Reference Governor

G Tartaglione, MM Nicotra, R Naldi, E Garone - Automatica, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper tackles the constrained control problem of unmanned aerial vehicles with planar
multirotors. The proposed solution splits the constrained control problem into two separate …

Safe, fast, and efficient distributed receding horizon constrained control of aerial robot swarms

B Convens, K Merckaert, MM Nicotra… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes a reactive, safe, and high-performance distributed constrained control
law for ensuring safety in multi-UAV systems. The UAVs possess higher-order nonlinear …

Distributed short-term predictive control for AUV clusters in underwater cooperative hunting tasks

Z Zhao, X Feng, C Jiang, Y Zhang, W Su, Q Hu - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
A distributed short-term predictive control method is proposed to be applied to autonomous
underwater vehicle (AUV) clusters for underwater cooperative hunting tasks. To support …

A robust invariant set planner for quadrotors

M Greiff, A Weiss, K Berntorp… - 2024 European Control …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a motion planner for quadrotors implemented as a search on a graph
constructed from robust positively invariant (PI) sets. We model the position error dynamics …

Invariant Set Planning for Quadrotors: Design, Analysis, Experiments

M Greiff, H Sinhmar, A Weiss, K Berntorp… - … on Control Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a motion planner for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) implemented
as a graph search over robust positive invariant (PI) sets. We model the positional error …

Constraint management for quadcopter drones: Reference governor-based approaches

Y Liu, Y Pedari, HR Ossareh - 2022 American Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents two constraint management strategies based on Reference Governors
(RG) to enforce output and state constraints on nonlinear dynamics of quadcopter drones …