Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have attracted a lot of attention,
since they represent a new potential market. Along with the maturity of the technology and …

Abstract Distributed Processing Systems are the ones that include multiple devices (which
could be of many types, such as PC computers, mobile devices etc.) that have computational …

This paper explores the role of meshed airborne communication networks in the operational
performance of small unmanned aircraft systems. Small unmanned aircraft systems have the …

In this paper, a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is used to design a high-level
controller for a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Given the kinematic model of the …

This paper explores networking issues that arise as a result of the operational requirements
of future applications of small unmanned aircraft systems. Small unmanned aircraft systems …

This work addresses the task of active sensing, or information-seeking control of mobile
sensor platforms. Formulation of a control objective in terms of information gain allows …

The contribution of this paper is an experimentally verified real-time algorithm for combined
probabilistic search and track using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Distributed …

There is growing interest in multi-robot frequency-based patrolling, in which a team of robots
optimizes its frequency of point visits, for every point in a target work area. In particular …

We consider the problem of mitigating a highly varying wireless channel between a
transmitting ground node and receivers on a small, low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle …

Cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) teams can serve as a mobile sensor networks
to autonomously execute sensing tasks in uncertain and dynamic environments. We have …