Response efforts in emergency applications such as border protection, humanitarian relief
and disaster monitoring have improved with the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) …

This paper presents a novel approach for the coordination of a team of autonomous sensor
platforms searching for lost targets under uncertainty. A real-time receding horizon controller …

Recent advances in autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increased their
use in remote sensing applications, such as precision agriculture, biosecurity, disaster …

This paper introduces a concept of safe path planning for UAV's autonomous operation in an
urban environment where GNSS-positioning may become unreliable or even unavailable. If …

The use of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAVs) has grown exponentially owing to an
increasing number of autonomous capabilities. Automated functions include the return to …

This paper presents a novel method for controlling teams of unmanned aerial vehicles using
Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) theory. The approach consists of a centralized high-level …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being used in numerous applications,
such as remote sensing, environmental monitoring, ecology and search and rescue …

Realizing long-term autonomous missions involving teams of heterogeneous robots is a
challenge. It requires mechanisms to make robots react to disturbances or failures that will …

In this paper we describe and flight test a novel system architecture for low cost muti-rotor
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for searching, tracking and following a ground target. The …

The minimum time search in uncertain domains is a searching task, which appears in real
world problems such as natural disasters and sea rescue operations, where a target has to …