Optimizing a drone network to deliver automated external defibrillators

JJ Boutilier, SC Brooks, A Janmohamed, A Byers… - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Public access defibrillation programs can improve survival after out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest, but automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are rarely available for bystander …

Bayesian optimization with safety constraints: safe and automatic parameter tuning in robotics

F Berkenkamp, A Krause, AP Schoellig - Machine Learning, 2023 - Springer
Selecting the right tuning parameters for algorithms is a pravelent problem in machine
learning that can significantly affect the performance of algorithms. Data-efficient …

Drone network design for cardiac arrest response

JJ Boutilier, TCY Chan - Manufacturing & Service …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: Our objective is to design a defibrillator-enabled drone network that
augments the existing emergency medical services (EMS) system to rapidly respond to out …

A survey of drone use for entertainment and AVR (augmented and virtual reality)

SJ Kim, Y Jeong, S Park, K Ryu, G Oh - Augmented Reality and Virtual …, 2018 - Springer
This paper explores the use of drones for entertainment with the emerging technology of
AVR (Augmented and Virtual Reality) over the past 10 years from 2006 to 2016. Drones …

So you think you can dance? Rhythmic flight performances with quadrocopters

AP Schoellig, H Siegel, F Augugliaro… - Controls and Art: Inquiries …, 2014 - Springer
This chapter reviews an approach for generating rhythmic flight motions that are executed by
quadrocopters and timed to music. It represents a research and artistic experiment, which …

Performance benchmarking of quadrotor systems using time-optimal control

M Hehn, R Ritz, R D'Andrea - Autonomous Robots, 2012 - Springer
Frequently hailed for their dynamical capabilities, quadrotor vehicles are often employed as
experimental platforms. However, questions surrounding achievable performance, influence …

Model-free primitive-based iterative learning control approach to trajectory tracking of MIMO systems with experimental validation

MB Radac, RE Precup, EM Petriu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel model-free trajectory tracking of multiple-input multiple-output
(MIMO) systems by the combination of iterative learning control (ILC) and primitives. The …

Minimum-time B-spline trajectories with corridor constraints. Application to cinematographic quadrotor flight plans

G Rousseau, CS Maniu, S Tebbani, M Babel… - Control Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel strategy for completing a flight plan with a quadrotor UAV, in
the context of aerial video making. The flight plan includes different types of waypoints to …

Distributed iterative learning control for multi-agent systems: Theoretic developments and application to formation flying

A Hock, AP Schoellig - Autonomous Robots, 2019 - Springer
The goal of this work is to enable a team of quadrotors to learn how to accurately track a
desired trajectory while holding a given formation. We solve this problem in a distributed …

Hierarchical cognitive control for unknown dynamic systems tracking

MB Radac, T Lala - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
A general control system tracking learning framework is proposed, by which an optimal
learned tracking behavior called 'primitive'is extrapolated to new unseen trajectories without …