[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-Art Flocking Strategies for the Collective Motion of Multi-Robots

ZA Ali, EH Alkhammash, R Hasan - Machines, 2024 - mdpi.com
The technological revolution has transformed the area of labor with reference to automation
and robotization in various domains. The employment of robots automates these disciplines …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of recent advances in set-membership techniques: Application to state estimation, fault detection and collision avoidance

D Silvestre - European Journal of Control, 2024 - Elsevier
There has been a vast body of research on set-membership techniques in recent years.
These algorithms compute convex sets that contain the state of a dynamical system given …

Constrained convex generators: A tool suitable for set-based estimation with range and bearing measurements

D Silvestre - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles in GPS-denied areas or when cooperating in missions might have
access to bearing and range measurements corrupted by noise, rendering the reachable set …

Decentralized adaptive flocking control algorithm with avoiding collision and preserving connectivity for crowded UUV swarm with uncertainties and input saturation

H Liang, H Cao, Y Fu - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates a decentralized adaptive flocking control for crowded unmanned
underwater vehicle (UUV) swarm in the presence of uncertainties and input saturation …

[HTML][HTML] A resilient continuous-time consensus method using a switching topology

G Ramos, D Silvestre, AP Aguiar - Systems & Control Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the design problem of a resilient consensus algorithm for agents with
continuous-time dynamics. The main proposal is that by incorporating a switching …

Model predictive control with collision avoidance for unknown environment

D Silvestre, G Ramos - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes a model predictive control framework to design autonomous
rendezvous operations for terrestrial and space missions in the scope of spacecraft and …

Solving two-person zero-sum stochastic games with incomplete information using learning automata with artificial barriers

A Yazidi, D Silvestre… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning automata (LA) with artificially absorbing barriers was a completely new horizon of
research in the 1980s (Oommen, 1986). These new machines yielded properties that were …

On the trade-offs between accuracy, privacy, and resilience in average consensus algorithms

G Ramos, AMH Teixeira… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There can be none. In this paper, we address the problem of a set of discrete-time
networked agents reaching average consensus privately and resiliently in the presence of a …

Distinguishability of discrete‐time linear systems

D Silvestre, P Rosa, C Silvestre - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article introduces the notion of absolutely distinguishable discrete‐time dynamic
systems, with particular applicability to linear time‐invariant and linear parameter‐varying …

The robust minimal controllability and observability problem

G Ramos, D Silvestre, C Silvestre - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we study the Robust Minimal Controllability and Observability Problem
(rMCOP). The scenario that motivated this question is related to the design of a drone …