A survey on aerial swarm robotics

SJ Chung, AA Paranjape, P Dames… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of aerial swarms to solve real-world problems has been increasing steadily,
accompanied by falling prices and improving performance of communication, sensing, and …

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 …

Bearing-only formation tracking control of multiagent systems

S Zhao, Z Li, Z Ding - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of bearing-only formation control of multiagent systems,
where the control of each agent merely relies on the relative bearings to its neighbors …

Bearing-based formation control of a group of agents with leader-first follower structure

MH Trinh, S Zhao, Z Sun, D Zelazo… - … on Automatic Control, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies bearing-based formation control of a group of autonomous agents with
the leader-first follower (LFF) structure in an arbitrary dimensional space. First, the bearing …

Bearing rigidity theory and its applications for control and estimation of network systems: Life beyond distance rigidity

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed control and location estimation of multiagent systems have received tremendous
research attention in recent years because of their potential across many application …

Robust tracking control of bearing-constrained leader–follower formation

MH Trinh, Q Van Tran, D Van Vu, PD Nguyen, HS Ahn - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper studies a leader–follower formation control problem where the leaders move with
constant velocity, the followers know the desired bearing vectors in the target formation and …

VIO-UWB-based collaborative localization and dense scene reconstruction within heterogeneous multi-robot systems

JP Queralta, Q Li, F Schiano… - … on Advanced Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective collaboration in multi-robot systems requires accurate and robust estimation of
relative localization: from cooperative manipulation to collaborative sensing, and including …

Bearing-only formation tracking control of multi-agent systems with local reference frames and constant-velocity leaders

J Zhao, X Yu, X Li, H Wang - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, the bearing-only formation tracking control problem of multi-agent systems
modeled as double-integrators in local reference frames is investigated. The sensing …

Angle-based shape determination theory of planar graphs with application to formation stabilization

G **g, G Zhang, HWJ Lee, L Wang - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents an angle-based approach for distributed formation shape stabilization
of multi-agent systems in the plane. We develop an angle rigidity theory to study whether a …

Finite-time bearing-only formation control via distributed global orientation estimation

Q Van Tran, MH Trinh, D Zelazo… - … on Control of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a finite-time bearing-only formation control scheme via finite-time
estimation of agents' global orientations. For the orientation estimation, we propose a …