Investigation of autonomous multi-UAV systems for target detection in distributed environment: Current developments and open challenges

WYH Adoni, S Lorenz, JS Fareedh, R Gloaguen… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are ubiquitous and their use cases
extend today from governmental applications to civil applications such as the agricultural …

Unmanned-aerial-vehicle routing problem with mobile charging stations for assisting search and rescue missions in postdisaster scenarios

RG Ribeiro, LP Cota, TAM Euzébio… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent technological breakthroughs have allowed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to be
utilized in a broad range of new operations. Among these various applications, herein, we …

Dynamic mission planning algorithm for UAV formation in battlefield environment

J Zhang, Y Cui, J Ren - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The limited time duration and spatial instability of TSTs increase the difficulty of mission
planning for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formations, which in turn affects the task …

Fixed-time fault-tolerant formation control for a cooperative heterogeneous multiagent system with prescribed performance

W Cheng, K Zhang, B Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the fixed-time fault-tolerant formation control problem of a leader–
follower heterogeneous multiagent system (HMAS), including multiple unmanned aerial …

Multiregional coverage path planning for multiple energy constrained UAVs

J Xie, J Chen - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, we have witnessed a growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a
variety of civil, commercial and military applications. Among these applications, many …

Fault-tolerant formation control for heterogeneous vehicles via reinforcement learning

W Zhao, H Liu, KP Valavanis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the formation control problem of multiple heterogeneous vehicles in
air–ground coordination under communication link faults and actuator faults. To address …

Routing UAVs in landslides Monitoring: A neural network heuristic for team orienteering with mandatory visits

C Fang, Z Han, W Wang, E Zio - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for surveillance in both civilian and
military scenarios. The utilization of UAVs provides an opportunity for monitoring landslide …

Aerial-ground collaborative continuous risk mapping for autonomous driving of unmanned ground vehicle in off-road environments

R Wang, K Wang, W Song, M Fu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrain risk estimation has always been a crucial but challenging task for autonomous
driving of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) in off-road environments. The map with dense …

Delivery path planning of heterogeneous robot system under road network constraints

Y Chen, M Chen, Z Chen, L Cheng, Y Yang… - Computers & Electrical …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the path-planning problem of a heterogeneous robot system applied
to parcel delivery in urban environments. The system consists of an unmanned ground …

Distributed adaptive fixed-time fault-tolerant formation control for heterogeneous multiagent systems with a leader of unknown input

W Cheng, K Zhang, B Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the distributed adaptive fixed-time output time-varying formation tracking issue
of heterogeneous multiagent systems (MASs) with actuator faults is addressed, in which the …