A survey on swarming with micro air vehicles: Fundamental challenges and constraints

M Coppola, KN McGuire, C De Wagter… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

Omni-swarm: A decentralized omnidirectional visual–inertial–uwb state estimation system for aerial swarms

H Xu, Y Zhang, B Zhou, L Wang, X Yao… - Ieee transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized state estimation is one of the most fundamental components of autonomous
aerial swarm systems in GPS-denied areas; yet, it remains a highly challenging research …

Event-triggered-based adaptive dynamic programming for distributed formation control of multi-UAV

L Dou, S Cai, X Zhang, X Su, R Zhang - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the distributed formation control problem of multi-quadrotor
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the framework of event triggering. First, for the position …

Viral-fusion: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar sensor fusion approach

TM Nguyen, M Cao, S Yuan, Y Lyu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, onboard self-localization (OSL) methods based on cameras or lidar have
achieved many significant progresses. However, some issues such as estimation drift and …

Relative position estimation in multi-agent systems using attitude-coupled range measurements

M Shalaby, CC Cossette, JR Forbes… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to accurately estimate the position of robotic agents relative to one another, in
possibly GPS-denied environments, is crucial to execute collaborative tasks. Inter-agent …

Precise localization for achieving next-generation autonomous navigation: State-of-the-art, taxonomy and future prospects

RC Shit - Computer Communications, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Achieving full autonomy in navigation is a complicated problem. The most widely used
solution takes up the modular framework for sensing and information processing such as …

Bio-inspired compact swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles without communication and external localization

P Petráček, V Walter, T Báča… - Bioinspiration & …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This article presents a unique framework for deploying decentralized and
infrastructureindependent swarms of homogeneous aerial vehicles in the real world without …