A survey on aerial swarm robotics

SJ Chung, AA Paranjape, P Dames… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of aerial swarms to solve real-world problems has been increasing steadily,
accompanied by falling prices and improving performance of communication, sensing, and …

Observer design for continuous-time dynamical systems

P Bernard, V Andrieu, D Astolfi - Annual Reviews in Control, 2022 - Elsevier
We review the main design techniques of state observer design for continuous-time
dynamical systems, namely algorithms which reconstruct online the full information of a …

Safe control with learned certificates: A survey of neural lyapunov, barrier, and contraction methods for robotics and control

C Dawson, S Gao, C Fan - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-enabled control systems have demonstrated impressive empirical performance on
challenging control problems in robotics, but this performance comes at the cost of reduced …

A bipedal walking robot that can fly, slackline, and skateboard

K Kim, P Spieler, ES Lupu, A Ramezani, SJ Chung - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Numerous mobile robots in various forms specialize in either ground or aerial locomotion,
whereas very few robots can perform complex locomotion tasks beyond simple walking and …

Controlling complex networks with complex nodes

RM D'Souza, M di Bernardo, YY Liu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Real-world networks often consist of millions of heterogenous elements that interact at
multiple timescales and length scales. The fields of statistical physics and control theory both …

Recent advances in consensus of multi-agent systems: A brief survey

J Qin, Q Ma, Y Shi, L Wang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we mainly review the topics in consensus and coordination of multi-agent
systems, which have received a tremendous surge of interest and progressed rapidly in the …

Control principles of complex systems

YY Liu, AL Barabási - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
A reflection of our ultimate understanding of a complex system is our ability to control its
behavior. Typically, control has multiple prerequisites: it requires an accurate map of the …

Robust adaptive control barrier functions: An adaptive and data-driven approach to safety

BT Lopez, JJE Slotine, JP How - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new framework is developed for control of constrained nonlinear systems with structured
parametric uncertainty. Forward invariance of a safe set is achieved through online …

Dynamical movement primitives: learning attractor models for motor behaviors

AJ Ijspeert, J Nakanishi, H Hoffmann, P Pastor… - Neural …, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
Nonlinear dynamical systems have been used in many disciplines to model complex
behaviors, including biological motor control, robotics, perception, economics, traffic …

Synchronization in complex networks of phase oscillators: A survey

F Dörfler, F Bullo - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
The emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators is a fascinating
subject of multidisciplinary research. This survey reviews the vast literature on the theory …