Swarm distribution and deployment for cooperative surveillance by micro-aerial vehicles

M Saska, V Vonásek, J Chudoba, J Thomas… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 - Springer
The task of cooperative surveillance of pre-selected Areas of Interest (AoI) in outdoor
environments by groups of closely cooperating Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is tackled in …

Autonomous deployment of swarms of micro-aerial vehicles in cooperative surveillance

M Saska, J Chudoba, L Přeučil… - 2014 International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An algorithm for autonomous deployment of groups of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) in the
cooperative surveillance task is presented in this paper. The algorithm enables to find a …

Optimal surveillance coverage for teams of micro aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments using onboard vision

L Doitsidis, S Weiss, A Renzaglia, MW Achtelik… - Autonomous …, 2012 - Springer
This paper deals with the problem of deploying a team of flying robots to perform
surveillance-coverage missions over a terrain of arbitrary morphology. In such missions, a …

Multi-robot three-dimensional coverage of unknown areas

A Renzaglia, L Doitsidis, A Martinelli… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The problem of deploying a team of flying robots to perform surveillance coverage missions
over an unknown terrain of complex and non-convex morphology is presented. In such a …

Coverage optimization in the cooperative surveillance task using multiple micro aerial vehicles

M Petrlík, V Vonásek, M Saska - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the task of cooperative surveillance using Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), MAVs
cooperatively observe a given set of Areas of Interest (AoI). The missions are usually …

Navigating between people: A stochastic optimization approach

J Rios-Martinez, A Renzaglia… - … on Robotics and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of this paper is to present a strategy to safely move a robot in an unknown and
complex environment where people are moving and interacting. The robot, by using only its …

Sfly: Swarm of micro flying robots

M Achtelik, M Achtelik, Y Brunet, M Chli… - 2012 IEEE/RSJ …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The SFly project is an EU-funded project, with the goal to create a swarm of autonomous
vision controlled micro aerial vehicles. The mission in mind is that a swarm of MAV's …

Real-time decentralized search with inter-agent collision avoidance

SK Gan, R Fitch, S Sukkarieh - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of coordinating a team of mobile autonomous sensor
agents performing a cooperative mission while explicitly avoiding inter-agent collisions in a …

Near-optimal probabilistic search via submodularity and sparse regression

KS Tseng, B Mettler - Autonomous Robots, 2017 - Springer
The goal of search is to maximize the probability of target detection while covering most of
the environment in minimum time. Existing approaches only consider one of these …

Robustness of stochastic stability in game theoretic learning

Y Lim, JS Shamma - 2013 American Control Conference, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The notion of stochastic stability is used in game theoretic learning to characterize which
joint actions of players exhibit high probabilities of occurrence in the long run. This paper …