Robust distributed planar formation control for higher order holonomic and nonholonomic agents

K Fathian, S Safaoui, TH Summers… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a distributed formation control strategy for agents with a variety of
dynamics to achieve a desired planar formation. Our approach is based on the barycentric …

A visual predictive control framework for robust and constrained multi-agent formation control

MMH Fallah, F Janabi-Sharifi, S Sajjadi… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2022 - Springer
In this study, the problem of leader-follower position-based formation control is considered.
Each agent in the multi-agent network is equipped with a perspective camera (assumed to …

Assuring safety of vision-based swarm formation control

C Hsieh, Y Koh, Y Li, S Mitra - 2024 American Control …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision-based formation control systems are attractive because they can use inexpensive
sensors and can work in G PS-denied environments. The safety assurance for such systems …

Robust 3D distributed formation control with collision avoidance and application to multirotor aerial vehicles

K Fathian, S Safaoui, TH Summers… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a distributed control strategy for a team of agents to autonomously achieve a
desired 3D formation. Our approach is based on local relative position measurements and …

Deep reinforcement learning for flocking control of uavs in complex environments

M Salimi, P Pasquier - 2021 6th International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flocking formation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an open challenge due to
kinematics complexity and uncertainties in complex environments. In this paper, the UAV …

Optimal time-invariant formation tracking for a second-order multi-agent system

M Fabris, A Cenedese, J Hauser - 2019 18th European Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given a multi-agent linear system, we formalize and solve a trajectory optimization problem
that encapsulates trajectory tracking, distance-based formation control and input energy …

Analysis and Deployment of an OCR—SSD Deep Learning Technique for Real-Time Active Car Tracking and Positioning on a Quadrotor

LGM Pinto, WM Martins, ACB Ramos… - Data Science: Theory …, 2021 - Springer
This work presents a deep learning solution object tracking and object detection in images
and real-time license plate recognition implemented in F450 quadcopter in autonomous …

Abstractions for safety assurance of autonomous systems

C Hsieh - 2023 - ideals.illinois.edu
An autonomous system has components to perceive the environment, control the hardware,
and communicate with other agents. Ideally, the formal analysis of the closed-loop system …

ASSURINGSAFETYOFVISION-BASED SWARMFORMATIONCONTROL

Y Koh - 2023 - ideals.illinois.edu
Vision-based formation control systems recently have attracted attention from both the
research community and the industry for their applicability in GPSdenied environments. The …

[PDF][PDF] Distributed Formation Control of Autonomous Vehicles via Vision-Based Motion Estimation

K Fathian - 2018 - utd-ir.tdl.org
Unmanned autonomous vehicles are starting to play a major role in tasks such as search
and rescue, environment monitoring, security surveillance, transportation, and inspection. In …