Recent advances in miniaturizing of computing, communication, sensing, and actuation
have made it feasible to envision large numbers of autonomous vehicles (air, ground, and …

Numerous applications require aerial surveillance. Civilian applications include monitoring
forest fires, oil fields, and pipelines and tracking wildlife. Applications to homeland security …

This paper focuses on the problem of cooperatively searching a given area to detect objects
of interest, using a team of heterogenous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). The paper …

This paper uses a team of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to cooperatively search, an area of
interest that contains regions of opportunity and regions of potential hazard. The objective of …

This paper focuses on the collision-free coordination of multiple robots with kinodynamic
constraints along specified paths. We present an approach to generate continuous velocity …

In this paper, an approach to control the motion of a platoon of autonomous vehicles is
presented. The proposed technique is based on the definition of suitable task functions that …

In this paper, the experimental validation of a behavior-based technique for multirobot
systems (MRSs), namely, the Null-Space-based Behavioral (NSB) control, is presented. The …

In this paper we show how non-linear attractor dynamics can be used as a framework to
control teams of autonomous mobile robots that should navigate according to a predefined …

This paper provides a practical framework for planning and control of formations of multiple
unmanned ground vehicles to traverse between goal points in a dynamic environment. This …

The research described in this thesis concerns the coordination control of robotic systems
composed by multiple autonomous vehicles. In particular, the research focuses on the …