A survey on recent progress in control of swarm systems

B Zhu, L Xie, D Han, X Meng, R Teo - Science China Information Sciences, 2017 - Springer
It has been witnessed that swarm systems are superior to individual agents in performing
complicated tasks. In recent years, new results in some branches of control for swarm …

Current advancements on autonomous mission planning and management systems: An AUV and UAV perspective

A Atyabi, S MahmoudZadeh, S Nefti-Meziani - Annual Reviews in Control, 2018 - Elsevier
Advances in hardware technology have enabled more integration of sophisticated software,
triggering progresses in development and employment of Unmanned Vehicles (UVs), and …

Robust team formation control for quadrotors

W Jasim, D Gu - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, we develop a suboptimal H∞ controller for a leader-follower formation problem
of quadrotors with the consideration of external disturbances and model parameter …

Conditions for consensus of multi-agent systems with time-delays and uncertain switching topology

HJ Savino, CRP dos Santos, FO Souza… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new approach for the analysis of consensus of multi-agent systems
subject to time-varying delayed control inputs and switching topology. The main contribution …

Adaptive distributed finite-time formation control for multi-UAVs under input saturation without collisions

B Liu, A Li, Y Guo, C Wang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper devotes to addressing the adaptive distributed finite-time formation control
problem for multi-UAVs with collision avoidance and input saturation. By combining the …

Path planning in multi-scale ocean flows: Coordination and dynamic obstacles

T Lolla, PJ Haley Jr, PFJ Lermusiaux - Ocean Modelling, 2015 - Elsevier
As the concurrent use of multiple autonomous vehicles in ocean missions grows, systematic
control for their coordinated operation is becoming a necessity. Many ocean vehicles …

Self-organized multi-target trapping of swarm robots with density-based interaction

X Lei, S Zhang, Y Xiang, M Duan - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Springer
The task of multi-target trapping in swarm robots can often be solved by global shape
planning and target assignment, but it still remains a challenge to achieve fully self …

Towards a PDE-based large-scale decentralized solution for path planning of UAVs in shared airspace

R Radmanesh, M Kumar, D French… - Aerospace Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been a tremendous increase of interest in utilizing Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) for a number of civilian applications. With this increased interest, it is …

Velocity field generation for density control of swarms using heat equation and smoothing kernels

U Eren, B Açıkmeşe - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a method to control the probability density distribution of a swarm of
vehicles via velocity fields. The proposed approach synthesizes smooth velocity fields …

Multi-agent algorithms for collective behavior: A structural and application-focused atlas

F Rossi, S Bandyopadhyay, MT Wolf… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The goal of this paper is to provide a survey and application-focused atlas of collective
behavior coordination algorithms for multi-agent systems. We survey the general family of …