Communication and networking of UAV-based systems: Classification and associated architectures

I Jawhar, N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, DP Agrawal… - Journal of Network and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many advancements have been taking place in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology
lately. This is leading towards the design and development of UAVs with various sizes that …

Recent research in cooperative control of multivehicle systems

RM Murray - 2007 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents a survey of recent research in cooperative control of multivehicle
systems, using a common mathematical framework to allow different methods to be …

Energy-efficient UAV control for effective and fair communication coverage: A deep reinforcement learning approach

CH Liu, Z Chen, J Tang, J Xu… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to serve as aerial base stations to enhance
both the coverage and performance of communication networks in various scenarios, such …

Joint optimization of multi-UAV target assignment and path planning based on multi-agent reinforcement learning

H Qie, D Shi, T Shen, X Xu, Y Li, L Wang - IEEE access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the major research topics in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collaborative control
systems is the problem of multi-UAV target assignment and path planning (MUTAPP). It is a …

Distributed energy-efficient multi-UAV navigation for long-term communication coverage by deep reinforcement learning

CH Liu, X Ma, X Gao, J Tang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we aim to design a fully-distributed control solution to navigate a group of
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as the mobile Base Stations (BSs) to fly around a target …

Emerging UAV technology for disaster detection, mitigation, response, and preparedness

A Khan, S Gupta, SK Gupta - Journal of Field Robotics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant interest
in research groups due to the wide range of applications, such as disaster surveillance and …

[書籍][B] Distributed consensus in multi-vehicle cooperative control

W Ren, RW Beard - 2008 - Springer
Recent advances in miniaturizing of computing, communication, sensing, and actuation
have made it feasible to envision large numbers of autonomous vehicles (air, ground, and …

The grasp multiple micro-uav testbed

N Michael, D Mellinger, Q Lindsey… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last five years, advances in materials, electronics, sensors, and batteries have fueled a
growth in the development of microunmanned aerial vehicles (MAVs) that are between 0.1 …

Footstep planning on uneven terrain with mixed-integer convex optimization

R Deits, R Tedrake - 2014 IEEE-RAS international conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new method for planning footstep placements for a robot walking on uneven
terrain with obstacles, using a mixed-integer quadratically-constrained quadratic program …

Control of multiple UAVs for persistent surveillance: Algorithm and flight test results

N Nigam, S Bieniawski, I Kroo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interest in control of multiple autonomous vehicles continues to grow for applications such
as weather monitoring, geographical map** fauna surveys, and extra-terrestrial …