Control of autonomous vehicles for applications such as surveillance, search, and
exploration has been a topic of great interest over the past two decades. In particular, there …

In MANET research the mobility of the nodes is often described using standard synthetic
models. Given a particular application, eg networks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

The problem of coverage of known space arises in a multitude of domains, including search
and rescue, mapping, and surveillance. In many of these applications, it is desirable or even …

We present the adaptation of an optimal terrain coverage algorithm for the aerial robotics
domain. The general strategy involves computing a trajectory through a known environment …

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), have been increasingly utilized by both
military and civilian organizations because they are less expensive, provide greater …

The recent development of compact and economic small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
permits the development of new UAV swarm applications. In order to enhance the area …

In recent years, thanks to the low cost of deploying, maintaining an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) system and the possibility to operating them in areas inaccessible or …

This work proposes a control law for efficient area coverage and pop-up threat detection by
a robot swarm inspired by the dynamical behavior of ant colonies foraging for food. In the …

2. Description of the Related Art Robots are increasingly employed for dull, dirty and dan
gerous tasks. For many diverse applications, there is a need for a system or method for …

We describe a project where behaviors of robot swarms are designed and studied for use in
a distributed mapping domain. Behaviors are studied in both simulation and physical robots …