Dynamic task assignment and path planning of multi-AUV system based on an improved self-organizing map and velocity synthesis method in three-dimensional …

D Zhu, H Huang, SX Yang - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For a 3-D underwater workspace with a variable ocean current, an integrated multiple
autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) dynamic task assignment and path planning …

Decentralized perimeter surveillance using a team of UAVs

D Kingston, RW Beard, RS Holt - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper poses the cooperative perimeter-surveillance problem and offers a decentralized
solution that accounts for perimeter growth (expanding or contracting) and insertion/deletion …

UAV circumnavigating an unknown target under a GPS-denied environment with range-only measurements

Y Cao - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
One typical application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the intelligence, surveillance,
and reconnaissance mission, where the objective is to improve situation awareness through …

Optimal UAV coordination for target tracking using dynamic programming

SAP Quintero, F Papi, DJ Klein, L Chisci… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work focuses on optimal routing for two camera-equipped UAVs cooperatively tracking
a single target moving on the ground. The UAVs are small fixed-wing aircraft cruising at a …

Vision-based target tracking with a small UAV: Optimization-based control strategies

SAP Quintero, JP Hespanha - Control Engineering Practice, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of a small, fixed-wing UAV equipped with a gimbaled
camera autonomously tracking an unpredictable moving ground vehicle. Thus, the UAV …

Robust UAV coordination for target tracking using output-feedback model predictive control with moving horizon estimation

SAP Quintero, DA Copp… - 2015 American Control …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the control of two UAVs tracking an evasive moving ground vehicle. The UAVs
are small fixed-wing aircraft equipped with gimbaled cameras and must coordinate their …

Multivehicle coordination in an estimated time-varying flowfield

C Peterson, DA Paley - Journal of guidance, control, and dynamics, 2011 - arc.aiaa.org
AUTONOMOUS vehicles in the air and ocean provide a cost-effective robust approach for
tracking, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. A cooperating team of vehicles can …

Stabilization of collective motion in a time-invariant flowfield

DA Paley, C Peterson - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2009 - arc.aiaa.org
AUTONOMOUS vehicles provide a robust sensing platform for synoptic and adaptive
sampling of spatiotemporal processes in the air and sea. Decentralized control algorithms …

Circumnavigation of an unknown target using UAVs with range and range rate measurements

Y Cao, J Muse, D Casbeer… - 52nd IEEE conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents two control algorithms enabling a UAV to circumnavigate an unknown
target using range and range rate (ie, the derivative of range) measurements. Given a …

Stochastic optimal coordination of small UAVs for target tracking using regression-based dynamic programming

SAP Quintero, M Ludkovski, JP Hespanha - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 - Springer
We study the problem of optimally coordinating multiple fixed-wing UAVs to perform vision-
based target tracking, which entails that the UAVs are tasked with gathering the best joint …