Design challenges of multi-UAV systems in cyber-physical applications: A comprehensive survey and future directions

R Shakeri, MA Al-Garadi, A Badawy… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently rapidly grown to facilitate a wide range of
innovative applications that can fundamentally change the way cyber-physical systems …

Coverage control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles: A short review

S Huang, RSH Teo, WWL Leong, N Martinel… - Unmanned …, 2018 - World Scientific
A multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (MUAV) system is a group of vehicles that are designed
with the aim to perform some collective behavior. Coverage control is one of the most active …

Distributed coverage control for concave areas by a heterogeneous robot–swarm with visibility sensing constraints

Y Kantaros, M Thanou, A Tzes - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
This article addresses the coverage problem of non-convex environments by a mobile multi-
robot system characterized by omnidirectional 'field of view'sensing capabilities. The mobile …

Distributed communication-aware coverage control by mobile sensor networks

Y Kantaros, MM Zavlanos - Automatica, 2016 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to propose a distributed control scheme to maximize area
coverage by a mobile robot network while ensuring reliable communication between the …

Distributed multi-target tracking for heterogeneous mobile sensing networks with limited field of views

J Chen, P Dames - … conference on robotics and automation (icra …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces the normalized unused sensing capacity to measure the amount of
information that a sensor is currently gathering relative to its theoretical maximum. This …

Dynamic deployment of wireless sensor networks by biogeography based optimization algorithm

G Wang, L Guo, H Duan, L Liu, H Wang - Journal of Sensor and Actuator …, 2012 - mdpi.com
As the usage and development of wireless sensor networks increases, problems related to
these networks are becoming apparent. Dynamic deployment is one of the main topics that …

Optimizing coverage with intelligent surfaces for indoor mmWave networks

J Zhang, DM Blough - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been proposed to increase coverage in
millimeter-wave networks by providing an indirect path from transmitter to receiver when the …

Coverage control for multi-robot teams with heterogeneous sensing capabilities using limited communications

M Santos, M Egerstedt - 2018 IEEE/RSJ international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a coverage algorithm for multi-robot systems where the robots are
equipped with qualitatively different sensing modalities. Unlike previous approaches to the …

Distributed dynamic coverage and avoidance control under anisotropic sensing

D Panagou, DM Stipanović… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses dynamic coverage in multiagent systems along with certain safety and
convergence guarantees. We consider anisotropic sensing for each agent, realized as …

Argus: realistic target coverage by drones

A Saeed, A Abdelkader, M Khan… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Low-cost mini-drones with advanced sensing and maneuverability enable a new class of
intelligent visual sensing systems. This potential motivated several research efforts to …