Formal specification and verification of autonomous robotic systems: A survey

M Luckcuck, M Farrell, LA Dennis, C Dixon… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Autonomous robotic systems are complex, hybrid, and often safety critical; this makes their
formal specification and verification uniquely challenging. Though commonly used, testing …

Collision avoidance of multi unmanned aerial vehicles: A review

S Huang, RSH Teo, KK Tan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2019 - Elsevier
The control of a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system is popular and attracting a
lot of attentions. This is motivated by many practical civil and commercial UAV applications …

[HTML][HTML] Conflict-based search for optimal multi-agent pathfinding

G Sharon, R Stern, A Felner, NR Sturtevant - Artificial intelligence, 2015 - Elsevier
In the multi-agent pathfinding problem (MAPF) we are given a set of agents each with
respective start and goal positions. The task is to find paths for all agents while avoiding …

Suboptimal variants of the conflict-based search algorithm for the multi-agent pathfinding problem

M Barer, G Sharon, R Stern, A Felner - Proceedings of the international …, 2014 - ojs.aaai.org
The task in the multi-agent path finding problem (MAPF) is to find paths for multiple agents,
each with a different start and goal position, such that agents do not collide. A successful …

Algorithms for collision-free navigation of mobile robots in complex cluttered environments: a survey

M Hoy, AS Matveev, AV Savkin - Robotica, 2015 - cambridge.org
We review a range of techniques related to navigation of unmanned vehicles through
unknown environments with obstacles, especially those that rigorously ensure collision …

Search-based optimal solvers for the multi-agent pathfinding problem: Summary and challenges

A Felner, R Stern, S Shimony, E Boyarski… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - ojs.aaai.org
Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is an area of expanding research interest. At the core of this
research area, numerous diverse search-based techniques were developed in the past 6 …

[BOK][B] Distributed control of robotic networks: a mathematical approach to motion coordination algorithms

F Bullo, J Cortés, S Martinez - 2009 - books.google.com
This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a
distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of …

The increasing cost tree search for optimal multi-agent pathfinding

G Sharon, R Stern, M Goldenberg, A Felner - Artificial intelligence, 2013 - Elsevier
We address the problem of optimal pathfinding for multiple agents. Given a start state and a
goal state for each of the agents, the task is to find minimal paths for the different agents …

Model predictive trajectory tracking and collision avoidance for reliable outdoor deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles

T Baca, D Hert, G Loianno, M Saska… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel approach for optimal trajectory tracking for unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAV), using a linear model predictive controller (MPC) in combination with non-linear state …

[BOK][B] Randomized algorithms for analysis and control of uncertain systems: with applications

R Tempo, G Calafiore, F Dabbene - 2013 - Springer
The presence of uncertainty in a system description has always been a critical issue in
control. The main objective of Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain …