Cooperative formation control of autonomous underwater vehicles: An overview

B Das, B Subudhi, BB Pati - International Journal of Automation and …, 2016 - Springer
Formation control is a cooperative control concept in which multiple autonomous underwater
mobile robots are deployed for a group motion and/or control mission. This paper presents a …

Agent-based simulation of unmanned aerial vehicles in civilian applications: A systematic literature review and research directions

Y Mualla, A Najjar, A Daoud, S Galland… - Future Generation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, the civilian applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining more
interest in several domains. Due to operational costs, safety concerns, and legal regulations …

Distributed fault-tolerant cooperative control for multi-UAVs under actuator fault and input saturation

Z Yu, Y Qu, Y Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a difficult problem of distributed fault-tolerant cooperative control for
multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of actuator faults and input …

Formation reconstruction and trajectory replanning for multi-UAV patrol

Y Wang, Y Yue, M Shan, L He… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the dynamic formation reconstruction and trajectory replanning
problem in the air patrol task using multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle formations …

Bearing-based formation tracking control with time-varying velocity estimation

H Su, C Chen, Z Yang, S Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the bearing-based formation tracking control problem of multiple double-
integrator agents. A leader-following structure, where the leader moves with the reference …

Multi-agent deployment in 3-D via PDE control

J Qi, R Vazquez, M Krstic - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a methodology for modelling, analysis, and control design of a large-
scale system of agents deployed in 3-D space. The agents' communication graph is a mesh …

Collective circular motion of unicycle type vehicles with nonidentical constant velocities

GS Seyboth, J Wu, J Qin, C Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses formation control problems for heterogeneous groups of unicycle type
mobile agents with fixed cruising speed. The heterogeneity in the group is caused by the …

Pursuing an evader through cooperative relaying in multi-agent surveillance networks

SL Du, XM Sun, M Cao, W Wang - Automatica, 2017 - Elsevier
We provide a distributed control strategy for each mobile agent in a surveillance network in
the plane to cooperatively pursue an evader. The pursuit task is relayed from one agent to …

Reinforcement learning based topology control for UAV networks

T Yoo, S Lee, K Yoo, H Kim - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The recent development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has shown the
possibility of using UAVs in many research and industrial fields. One of them is for UAVs …

Uav formation shape control via decentralized markov decision processes

MA Azam, HD Mittelmann, S Ragi - Algorithms, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present a decentralized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm formation
control approach based on a decision theoretic approach. Specifically, we pose the UAV …