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 …

Collaborative monocular slam with multiple micro aerial vehicles

C Forster, S Lynen, L Kneip… - 2013 IEEE/RSJ …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a framework for collaborative localization and map** with multiple
Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) in unknown environments. Each MAV estimates its motion …

A distributed optimization framework for localization and formation control: Applications to vision-based measurements

R Tron, J Thomas, G Loianno… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiagent systems have been a major area of research for the last 15 years. This interest
has been motivated by tasks that can be executed more rapidly in a collaborative manner or …

Multirobot collaborative monocular SLAM utilizing rendezvous

Y Jang, C Oh, Y Lee, HJ Kim - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multirobot simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) requires technical ingredients
such as systematic construction of multiple SLAM systems and collection of information from …

Modeling and control of UAV bearing formations with bilateral high-level steering

A Franchi, C Masone, V Grabe, M Ryll… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper we address the problem of controlling the motion of a group of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) bound to keep a formation defined in terms of only relative angles (ie …

Certifiably optimal mutual localization with anonymous bearing measurements

Y Wang, X Wen, L Yin, C Xu, Y Cao… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mutual localization is essential for coordination and cooperation in multi-robot systems.
Previous works have tackled this problem by assuming available correspondences between …

Rigidity theory in SE (2) for unscaled relative position estimation using only bearing measurements

D Zelazo, A Franchi… - 2014 European Control …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work considers the problem of estimating the unscaled relative positions of a multi-robot
team in a common reference frame from bearing-only measurements. Each robot has …

Mutual localization in multi-robot systems using anonymous relative measurements

A Franchi, G Oriolo, P Stegagno - The International Journal …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a decentralized method to perform mutual localization in multi-robot systems
using anonymous relative measurements, ie measurements that do not include the identity …

An optimization based approach for relative localization and relative tracking control in multi-robot systems

MW Mehrez, GK I. Mann, RG Gosine - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, an optimization based method is used for relative localization and relative
trajectory tracking control in Multi-Robot Systems (MRS's). In this framework, one or more …

Cooperative localization for fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles

A Chakraborty, CN Taylor, R Sharma… - 2016 IEEE/ION …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate how relative measurements between fixed wing unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) and known landmarks can be used to cooperatively localize UAVs …