Convergent multiagent formation control with collision avoidance

J Hu, H Zhang, L Liu, X Zhu, C Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key problem in the formation control of homogeneous multiagent systems is the collision-
free convergence of the agent positions into a desired formation. It is a typical NP-hard …

Nonlinear model predictive control for mobile medical robot using neural optimization

Y Hu, H Su, J Fu, HR Karimi, G Ferrigno… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile medical robots have been widely used in various structured scenarios, such as
hospital drug delivery, public area disinfection, and medical examinations. Considering the …

Cooperative multi-robot control for target tracking with onboard sensing

K Hausman, J Müller, A Hariharan… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
We consider the cooperative control of a team of robots to estimate the position of a moving
target using onboard sensing. In this setting, robots are required to estimate their positions …

A connection between dynamic region-following formation control and distributed average tracking

F Chen, W Ren - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the inherent connection between dynamic region-following formation
control (DRFFC) and distributed average tracking (DAT). We propose a fixed-gain DAT …

Deep neural network-based cooperative visual tracking through multiple micro aerial vehicles

E Price, G Lawless, R Ludwig… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multicamera tracking of humans and animals in outdoor environments is a relevant and
challenging problem. Our approach to it involves a team of cooperating microaerial vehicles …

Pound: A multi-master ROS node for reducing delay and jitter in wireless multi-robot networks

D Tardioli, R Parasuraman, P Ögren - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular and widely used software
framework for building robotics systems. With the growth of its popularity, it has started to be …

Formation control of unmanned micro aerial vehicles for straitened environments

M Saska, D Hert, T Baca, V Kratky, T Nascimento - Autonomous Robots, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents a novel approach for control and motion planning of formations of
multiple unmanned micro aerial vehicles (multi-rotor helicopters, in the literature also often …

Active perception based formation control for multiple aerial vehicles

R Tallamraju, E Price, R Ludwig… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel robotic front-end for autonomous aerial motion-capture (mocap) in
outdoor environments. In previous work, we presented an approach for cooperative …

Motion control and trajectory planning for obstacle avoidance of the mobile parallel robot driven by three tracked vehicles

S Shentu, F **e, XJ Liu, Z Gong - Robotica, 2021 - cambridge.org
This paper proposes a mobile parallel robot (MPR) and focuses on obstacle avoidance.
When analyzing the collision-free trajectories, the coupling constraints caused by the …

Decentralized mpc based obstacle avoidance for multi-robot target tracking scenarios

R Tallamraju, S Rajappa, MJ Black… - … on Safety, Security …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we consider the problem of decentralized multi-robot target tracking and
obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments. Each robot executes a local motion planning …