Distributed UAV flocking control based on homing pigeon hierarchical strategies

Q Luo, H Duan - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
The recent boom of animal collective motion investigation has attracted many researchers to
the field of applying such intelligence to complicated distribute control problems in artificial …

Swarm robotics as a solution to crops inspection for precision agriculture

C Carbone, O Garibaldi, Z Kurt - 2018 - open.metu.edu.tr
This paper summarizes the concept of swarm robotics and its applicability to crop
inspections. To increase the agricultural yield it is essential to monitor the crop health …

A complex network theory-based modeling framework for unmanned aerial vehicle swarms

L Wang, D Lu, Y Zhang, X Wang - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is an emerging technology that will significantly
expand the application areas and open up new possibilities for UAVs, while also presenting …

Zero to swarm: integrating sUAS swarming into a multi-disciplinary engineering program

T Brick, M Lanham, A Kopeikin… - 2018 International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the results of a year-long effort to develop swarm tactics in the DARPA-
sponsored Service Academies Swarm Challenge. Through the course of approximately 9 …

[PDF][PDF] Waypoint-based generation of guided and optimal trajectories for autonomous tracking using a quadrotor uav

G Farid, HT Hamid, S Karim, S Tahir - Studies in Informatics and …, 2018 - researchgate.net
\Waypoint-based trajectory tracking control of a quadrotor UAV with robust performance
attributes requires the generation of dynamically feasible and smooth trajectories. The …

A hierarchical collision avoidance architecture for multiple fixed-wing uavs in an integrated airspace

Y Wang, X Wang, S Zhao, L Shen - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper studies the collision avoidance problem for autonomous multiple fixed-wing
UAVs in the complex integrated airspace. By studying and combining the online path …

Synergistic UAV Motion: A Comprehensive Review on Advancing Multi-Agent Coordination

GEM Abro, ZA Ali, RJ Masood - IECE Transactions on Sensing …, 2024 - iece.org
Collective motion has been a pivotal area of research, especially due to its substantial
importance in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems for several purposes, including path …

On a three dimensional vision based collision avoidance model

C Parzani, F Filbet - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2017 - Springer
This paper presents a three dimensional collision avoidance approach for aerial vehicles
inspired by coordinated behaviors in biological groups. The proposed strategy aims to …

Airspace deregulation for UAM: Self-organizing VTOLs in metropoles

HO ALDEMIR, C UCLER - The Collegiate Aviation Review …, 2022 - ojs.library.okstate.edu
Small-scale aviation has been driven extensively by recent technological developments.
Distinct micro/small scale mobility modes are being interlined, where automated Vertical …

Enhancing convergence efficiency of self-propelled agents by diffusion concept

Y Chen, X Zhang, Y Yu - 2021 40th Chinese Control …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the well-known Vicsek model (VM) has attracted the interest of many
researchers. In this paper, we investigate a revised Vicsek model based on diffusion …