Collision-avoiding flocking with multiple fixed-wing UAVs in obstacle-cluttered environments: a task-specific curriculum-based MADRL approach

C Yan, C Wang, X Xiang, KH Low… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are able to efficiently accomplish a variety of
tasks in complex scenarios. However, developing a collision-avoiding flocking policy for …

Swarms of flying robots in unknown environments

E Soria - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
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Pilot: High-precision indoor localization for autonomous drones

A Famili, A Stavrou, H Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many scenarios, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka drones, need to have the
capability of autonomous flight to carry out their missions successfully. In order to fly …

Graph attention mechanism based reinforcement learning for multi-agent flocking control in communication-restricted environment

J Xiao, G Yuan, J He, K Fang, Z Wang - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
To solve the poor performance of reinforcement learning (RL) in the multi-agent flocking
cooperative control under the communication-restricted environments, we propose a multi …

Distributed predictive drone swarms in cluttered environments

E Soria, F Schiano, D Floreano - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent works in aerial robotics show that the self-organized and cohesive flight of swarms
can emerge from the exchange of purely local information between neighboring agents …

A multi-agent flocking collaborative control method for stochastic dynamic environment via graph attention autoencoder based reinforcement learning

J Xiao, G Yuan, Z Wang - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
The environmental adaptability of the multi-agent flocking collaborative control system is
vital to practical applications. Focusing on the adaptive problem of multi-agent flocking …

[HTML][HTML] Designing UAV swarm experiments: A simulator selection and experiment design process

A Phadke, FA Medrano, CN Sekharan, T Chu - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The rapid advancement and increasing number of applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) swarm systems have garnered significant attention in recent years. These systems …

SmrtSwarm: A Novel Swarming Model for Real-World Environments

N Bhamu, H Verma, A Dixit, B Bollard, SR Sarangi - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drone swarms have gained a lot of popularity in recent times because, as a group, drones
can perform highly intelligent tasks. Drone swarms are strongly inspired by the flocking …

Angle-constrained formation maneuvering of unmanned aerial vehicles

L Chen, J Xiao, RCH Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a global positioning system (GPS)-denied environment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
rely on local sensing-based formation maneuvering approaches for collective motion. To …

Cooperative navigation and guidance of a micro-scale aerial vehicle by an accompanying UAV using 3D LiDAR relative localization

V Pritzl, M Vrba, P Štĕpán… - … Conference on Unmanned …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel approach for cooperative navigation and guidance of a micro-scale aerial vehicle by
an accompanying Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) using 3D Light Detection and Ranging …