Recently, there has been growing interest in developing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
with advanced onboard autonomous capabilities. This paper describes the current state of …

Abstract Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) are becoming ever more promising over the
last decade. The Sense and Avoid (S&A) system plays a profoundly important role in …

We report recent results from field experiments conducted with a team of ground and aerial
robots toward the collaborative mapping of an earthquake damaged building. The goal of …

The deployment of multiple robots for achieving a common goal helps to improve the
performance, efficiency, and/or robustness in a variety of tasks. In particular, the observation …

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have recently become an important area of
technology, building on the success of the microelectronics industry over the past 50 years …

In the past two decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated their efficacy
in supporting both military and civilian applications, where tasks can be dull, dirty …

The overall UAV approach discussed in this article provided satisfactory performance for the
avionics systems; however, the design is limited with regard to the wireless link and the …

Ad-hoc aerial sensor networks leveraging MUAVs (Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are
ideally suited to cost-efficiently explore unknown or hostile environments for example in …

Cooperative ad hoc networks are becoming very important in various military and civilian
applications. The interfacing between different ad hoc networks provides large applications …

The auction algorithm is a widely used method for task assignments. However, most existing
auction algorithms yield poor performance when applied to multi-UAVs dynamic task …