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 …

UAV swarm formation reconfiguration control based on variable-stepsize MPC-APCMPIO algorithm

J Liao, J Cheng, B Xin, D Luo, L Zheng, Y Kang… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
For a complex operational environment, to actualize safe obstacle avoidance and collision
avoidance, a swarm must be capable of autonomous formation reconfiguration. First, this …

Safe Motion Planning and Control for Mobile Robots: A Survey

S Hwang, I Jang, D Kim, HJ Kim - International Journal of Control …, 2024 - Springer
Control engineering has made significant progress in addressing various challenges for real-
world applications. For the next stage of robotics automation, it is necessary to guarantee …

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 …

Reinforcement learning based time-varying formation control for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles system with input saturation

C Ma, Y Cao, D Dong - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
This paper proposes a reinforcement learning sliding mode strategy for the time-varying
formation control of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles system. Previous research relied …

Where Are You? Unscented Particle Filter for Single Range Relative Pose Estimation in Unobservable Motion Using UWB and VIO.

Y Durodié, B Convens, G Liu, T Decoster… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time relative pose (RP) estimation is a cornerstone for effective multi-agent
collaboration. When conventional global positioning infrastructure such as GPS is …

Control With Guarantees for Minimalist Robotic Swarms

H Sinhmar - 2024 - search.proquest.com
While there has been significant progress in expanding the capabilities of multiagent
systems a key challenge is developing controllers and motion planners for robotic systems …

[PDF][PDF] Distributed Explicit Reference Governors for Real-Time, Guaranteed Safe, Performant, and Scalable Unmanned Aerial Traffic Management

B Convens, K Merckaert, MM Nicotra… - … Aerial Vehicles to …, 2022 - researchportal.vub.be
This extended abstract provides an introduction to a novel distributed control framework that
can be used to achieve real-time, guaranteed safe, performant, and scalable Unmanned …

[PDF][PDF] Explicit Reference Governors for Provably Safe Robot Control

B Convens, K Merckaert, MM Nicotra… - … Workshop: Safe and …, 2022 - researchportal.vub.be
Reference and Command Governors (RG & CG) are add-on schemes that enforce pointwise-
in-time constraints on prestabilized safety-critical systems. More recently, the introduction of …