The multiple unmanned air vehicle persistent surveillance problem: A review

N Nigam - Machines, 2014 - mdpi.com
Control of autonomous vehicles for applications such as surveillance, search, and
exploration has been a topic of great interest over the past two decades. In particular, there …

Control of multiple UAVs for persistent surveillance: Algorithm and flight test results

N Nigam, S Bieniawski, I Kroo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interest in control of multiple autonomous vehicles continues to grow for applications such
as weather monitoring, geographical map** fauna surveys, and extra-terrestrial …

Coordinated standoff tracking of moving targets using Lyapunov guidance vector fields

EW Frew, DA Lawrence, S Morris - Journal of guidance, control, and …, 2008 - arc.aiaa.org
TEAMS of low-cost unmanned aircraft (UA) with autonomous behaviors will be capable of
performing inexpensive, persistent, distributed sensing functions. One application of interest …

Unmanned aerial vehicle obstacle detection and avoidance

PM Kanade, CW Sweet III, JB Gehlhaar - US Patent 10,019,907, 2018 - Google Patents
Apparatuses and methods for detecting an obstacle in a path of an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) are described herein, including, but not limited to, receiving data from a single …

Cooperative multi-agent planning framework for fuel constrained uav-ugv routing problem

MS Mondal, S Ramasamy, JD Humann… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2025 - Springer
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), adept at aerial surveillance, are often
constrained by their limited battery capacity. Refueling on slow-moving Unmanned Ground …

Cooperative stand-off tracking of moving targets by a team of autonomous aircraft

E Frew, D Lawrence - … , Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, 2005 - arc.aiaa.org
Teams of low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) autonomously executing distributed
sensing tasks will enable new applications such as Cooperative Search, Acquisition, and …

The software architecture of the Berkeley UAV platform

J Tisdale, A Ryan, M Zennaro, X **ao… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper details the software architecture of the Berkeley unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
platform. Developed over the course of three years, this platform has successfully …

A rapid situational awareness development framework for heterogeneous manned-unmanned teams

A Das, P Kol, C Lundberg, K Doelling… - NAECON 2018-IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a robust framework for configuring and deploying a heterogeneous
team of smart unmanned systems and human agents in dynamic and un-modeled …

Cooperative target pursuit by multiple UAVs in an adversarial environment

U Zengin, A Dogan - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents the development of a cooperation strategy for multiple UAVs to pursue a
target moving in an adversarial environment where threat exposure should be minimized …

Bearings-only guidance of a unicycle-like vehicle following a moving target with a smaller minimum turning radius

AV Savkin, H Teimoori - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical note addresses the problem of following a moving target by a unicycle-like
vehicle. The target may have higher maneuverability and a smaller minimum turning radius …