Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a
distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of …

This paper studies the multi-robot task assignment problem in which a fleet of dispersed
robots needs to efficiently transport a set of dynamically appearing packages from their initial …

The rapid evolution of smart cities relies heavily on advancements in wireless
communication systems and extensive IoT networks. This paper offers a comprehensive …

Intelligent vehicles need high bandwidth wireless communication links for safety and
commercial communication. However, the new generations of wireless communication …

In this paper, we study minimum-time motion planning and routing problems for the Dubins
vehicle, ie, a nonholonomic vehicle that is constrained to move along planar paths of …

We study the traveling salesman problem for a Dubins vehicle. We prove that this problem is
NP-hard, and provide lower bounds on the approximation ratio achievable by some recently …

This article considers the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for covert video
surveillance of a mobile target on the ground and presents a new online UAV trajectory …

This report presents the major contributions and the possible future challenges in the
emerging area of Networked Control Systems. Activities in this field can be categorized into …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are utilized to improve the performance of wireless
communication networks (WCNs), notably, in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) …