Recently, multiple unmanned vehicles have attracted a great deal of attention as viable
solutions to a wide variety of civilian and military applications. Among many topics in the …

Path planning and formation control are two of the most significant concepts which can be
considered in multi-vehicle systems and particularly in autonomous underwater vehicles …

Time-varying formation tracking analysis and design problems for second-order Multi-Agent
systems with switching interaction topologies are studied, where the states of the followers …

Formation control analysis and design problems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm
systems to achieve time-varying formations are investigated. To achieve predefined time …

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.”—
Woody Allen The emergence of (relatively) cheap sensing and actuation nodes, capable of …

Time-varying formation control problems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm systems
with switching interaction topologies are studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for …

Recent advances in miniaturizing of computing, communication, sensing, and actuation
have made it feasible to envision large numbers of autonomous vehicles (air, ground, and …

Stability theory has allowed us to study both qualitative and quantitative properties of
dynamical systems, and control theory has played a key role in designing numerous …

Time-varying formation tracking (TVFT) control problems for a team of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) with switching and directed interaction topologies are investigated, where …

This paper addresses the problem of coordinating multiple spacecraft to fly in tightly
controlled formations. The main contribution of the paper is to introduce a coordination …