Environmental monitoring using autonomous vehicles: a survey of recent searching techniques

B Bayat, N Crasta, A Crespi, AM Pascoal… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Autonomous vehicles are becoming an essential tool in a wide range of environmental
applications that include ambient data acquisition, remote sensing, and map** of the …

Multi-agent systems for resource allocation and scheduling in a smart grid

AS Nair, T Hossen, M Campion, DF Selvaraj… - … and Economics of Smart …, 2018 - Springer
With the increasing integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) in the power grid, a
decentralized approach becomes essential for scheduling and allocation of resources in a …

Distributed optimal coordination for heterogeneous linear multiagent systems

L An, GH Yang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the problem of distributed optimal coordination (DOC) for heterogeneous
linear multiagent systems. Compared with the existing results where the structure constraints …

Collisions-free distributed optimal coordination for multiple Euler-Lagrangian systems

L An, GH Yang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiagent distributed optimal coordination (DOC) involves the motion conflicts of a large
numbers of physical systems, which lead to significant safety challenges in terms of collision …

Particle swarm optimization-based source seeking

R Zou, V Kalivarapu, E Winer, J Oliver… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The task of locating a source based on the measurements of the signal emitted/emanating
from it is called the source-seeking problem. In the past few years, there has been a lot of …

Distributed source seeking via a circular formation of agents under communication constraints

L Brinón-Arranz, L Schenato… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the source-seeking problem in which a group of autonomous vehicles
must locate and follow the source of some signal based on measurements of the signal …

Distributed algorithms for stochastic source seeking with mobile robot networks

NA Atanasov, J Le Ny… - Journal of …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Autonomous robot networks are an effective tool for monitoring large-scale environmental
fields. This paper proposes distributed control strategies for localizing the source of a noisy …

A survey on techniques in the circular formation of multi-agent systems

H Litimein, ZY Huang, A Hamza - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Distributed control solutions to the multi-agent systems in terms of coordination, formation,
and consensus problems are extensively studied in the literature. The circular formation …

Unmanned aerial systems: autonomy, cognition, and control

A Montazeri, A Can, IH Imran - Unmanned aerial systems, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing trend towards a higher level of autonomy in unmanned aerial systems
(UASs) had led to lower requirements for control by the human operator and to an …

[HTML][HTML] Gradient free cooperative seeking of a moving source

E Michael, C Manzie, TA Wood, D Zelazo, I Shames - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the optimisation of a time varying scalar field by a network of
agents with no gradient information. We propose a composite control law, blending …