Aerial swarms: Recent applications and challenges

M Abdelkader, S Güler, H Jaleel, JS Shamma - Current robotics reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Currently, there is a large body of research on multi-agent
systems addressing their different system theoretic aspects. Aerial swarms as one type of …

Coverage path planning of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles based on ant colony system

J Chen, F Ling, Y Zhang, T You, Y Liu, X Du - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been extensively studied and widely adopted in
practical systems owing to its effectiveness and flexibility. Although heterogeneous UAVs …

Uavs for industrial applications: Identifying challenges and opportunities from the implementation point of view

D Mourtzis, J Angelopoulos, N Panopoulos - Procedia Manufacturing, 2021 - Elsevier
New technologies such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are constantly being
introduced under the Industry 4.0 framework. Although UAVs are mainly used in civil and …

Three dimensional path planning using Grey wolf optimizer for UAVs

RK Dewangan, A Shukla, WW Godfrey - Applied Intelligence, 2019 - Springer
Robot path planning is essential to identify the most feasible path between a start point and
goal point by avoiding any collision in the given environment. This task is an NP-hard …

Drone swarm strategy for the detection and tracking of occluded targets in complex environments

RJ Amala Arokia Nathan, I Kurmi… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Drone swarms can achieve tasks via collaboration that are impossible for single drones
alone. Synthetic aperture (SA) sensing is a signal processing technique that takes …

A differential game for cooperative target defense

L Liang, F Deng, Z Peng, X Li, W Zha - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
Multi-player pursuit–evasion games are crucial for addressing the maneuver decision
problem arising in the cooperative control of multi-agent systems. This work addresses a …

State-of-the-art intelligent flight control systems in unmanned aerial vehicles

F Santoso, MA Garratt… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss state-of-the-art intelligent robotic aircraft with the special focus on evolutionary
autopilots for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Under the umbrella of adaptive …

A dynamic artificial potential field (D-APF) UAV path planning technique for following ground moving targets

HM Jayaweera, S Hanoun - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path planning is a vital and challenging component in the support of Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) and their deployment in autonomous missions, such as following ground …

TERRA: A path planning algorithm for cooperative UGV–UAV exploration

F Ropero, P Muñoz, MD R-Moreno - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the scenario of exploring a planetary surface with a system formed
by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV). The goal …

Moving path following for unmanned aerial vehicles with applications to single and multiple target tracking problems

T Oliveira, AP Aguiar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces the moving path following (MPF) problem, in which a vehicle is
required to converge to and follow a desired geometric moving path, without a specific …