[PDF][PDF] A review of rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developments and applications in civil engineering

P Liu, AY Chen, YN Huang, JY Han, JS Lai… - Smart Struct …, 2014 - academia.edu
Civil engineers always face the challenge of uncertainty in planning, building, and
maintaining infrastructure. These works rely heavily on a variety of surveying and monitoring …

Formation control and coordination of multiple unmanned ground vehicles in normal and faulty situations: A review

MA Kamel, X Yu, Y Zhang - Annual reviews in control, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Fuzzy adaptive optimized leader-following formation control for second-order stochastic multiagent systems

Y Li, J Zhang, S Tong - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, an adaptive optimized formation control problem is studied for the second-
order stochastic multiagent systems (MASs) with unknown nonlinear dynamics. Compared …

Multi-UAV formation control based on a novel back-stepping approach

J Zhang, J Yan, P Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addressed a well-documented open problem regarding multiple unmanned
aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) formation keeping. A cooperative guidance control method …

Hybrid three-dimensional formation control for unmanned helicopters

A Karimoddini, H Lin, BM Chen, TH Lee - Automatica, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a hybrid supervisory control framework for the three-dimensional leader–
follower formation control of unmanned helicopters. In particular, a spherical abstraction of …

UAVs' formation keeping control based on multi–agent system consensus

Y Wang, Z Cheng, M Xiao - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, formation keeping control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on multi-
agent system consensus is studied. Firstly, a leader–following model based multiple …

Formation control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles by event-triggered distributed model predictive control

Z Cai, H Zhou, J Zhao, K Wu, Y Wang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an event-triggered model predictive control (MPC) scheme for the
formation control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A distributed MPC framework …

[HTML][HTML] Formation tracking control for time-delayed multi-agent systems with second-order dynamics

L Han, X Dong, Q Li, Z Ren - Chinese journal of aeronautics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, formation tracking control problems for second-order multi-agent systems
(MASs) with time-varying delays are studied, specifically those where the position and …

A survey on formation control algorithms for multi-AUV system

X Li, D Zhu, Y Qian - Unmanned Systems, 2014 - World Scientific
With the development of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) application techniques,
formation control of multiple AUVs becomes a worldwide research focus. In this paper, first …

Cooperative exploration based on supervisory control of multi-robot systems

X Dai, L Jiang, Y Zhao - Applied Intelligence, 2016 - Springer
When multiple mobile robots cooperatively explore an unknown environment, the
advantages of robustness and redundancy are guaranteed. However, available traditional …