Autonomous aerial swarming in gnss-denied environments with high obstacle density

A Ahmad, V Walter, P Petráček, M Petrlík… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The compact flocking of relatively localized Un-manned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in high
obstacle density areas is discussed in this paper. The presented work tackles realistic …

[HTML][HTML] Deep reinforcement learning-based model-free path planning and collision avoidance for UAVs: A soft actor–critic with hindsight experience replay approach

MH Lee, J Moon - ICT Express, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a soft actor–critic (SAC) algorithm with hindsight experience replay
(HER), called SACHER, which is a class of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm …

Adaptive robot navigation with collision avoidance subject to 2nd-order uncertain dynamics

CK Verginis, DV Dimarogonas - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of robot motion planning in a workspace with obstacles for
systems with uncertain 2nd-order dynamics. In particular, we combine closed form potential …

PACNav: a collective navigation approach for UAV swarms deprived of communication and external localization

A Ahmad, DB Licea, G Silano, T Báča… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract This article proposes Persistence Administered Collective Navigation (PACNav) as
an approach for achieving the decentralized collective navigation of unmanned aerial …

Closed-form barrier functions for multi-agent ellipsoidal systems with uncertain lagrangian dynamics

CK Verginis, DV Dimarogonas - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we design a decentralized control protocol for the collision avoidance of a multi-
agent system, which is composed of 3-D ellipsoidal agents that obey second-order uncertain …

[HTML][HTML] Control of cooperative manipulator-endowed systems under high-level tasks and uncertain dynamics

CK Verginis, DV Dimarogonas - Annual Reviews in Control, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of distributed motion-and task-planning of multi-agent and
multi-agent-object systems under temporal-logic-based tasks and uncertain dynamics. We …

Kdf: Kinodynamic motion planning via geometric sampling-based algorithms and funnel control

CK Verginis, DV Dimarogonas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We integrate sampling-based planning techniques with funnel-based feedback control to
develop KDF, a new framework for solving the kinodynamic motion-planning problem via …

Deep reinforcement learning-based uav navigation and control: A soft actor-critic with hindsight experience replay approach

MH Lee, J Moon - arxiv preprint arxiv:2106.01016, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose SACHER (soft actor-critic (SAC) with hindsight experience replay
(HER)), which constitutes a class of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms. SAC is …

Mission aware motion planning (MAP) framework with physical and geographical constraints for a swarm of mobile stations

K Harikumar, J Senthilnath… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a mission aware motion planning (MAP) framework for a swarm of
autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) or mobile stations in an uncertain …

Mobile robot navigation in complex polygonal workspaces using conformal navigation transformations

L Fan, J Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2208.09635, 2022 - arxiv.org
This work proposes a novel transformation termed the conformal navigation transformation
to achieve collision-free navigation of a robot in a workspace populated with arbitrary …