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Cooperative Path Planning for Heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles in a Search-and-Track Mission Aiming at an Underwater Target

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2020
It is an effective way to execute a complicated mission by cooperating unmanned vehicles. This paper focuses on a search- and-track (SAT) mission for an underwater target, and the mission is implemented by combining an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an ...
Yu Wu, K. Low, Chen Lv
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildland Fires: Sensing, Perception, Cooperation and Assistance

open access: yes, 2021
Wildfires represent a significant natural risk causing economic losses, human death and environmental damage. In recent years, the world has seen an increase in fire intensity and frequency.
M. Akhloufi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drones: Innovative Technology for Use in Precision Pest Management. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Arthropod pest outbreaks are unpredictable and not uniformly distributed within fields. Early outbreak detection and treatment application are inherent to effective pest management, allowing management decisions to be implemented before pests are well ...
de Lange, Elvira S   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Robust position control of a tilt-wing quadrotor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper presents a robust position controller for a tilt-wing quadrotor to track desired trajectories under external wind and aerodynamic disturbances.
Cetinsoy, Ertugrul   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Formation Control of Multi‐Agent System with Local Interaction and Artificial Potential Field

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article proposes a local interaction‐based formation control method for Multi‐Agent system, integrating consensus and leader‐follower strategies with a stress response mechanism—artificial potential field to reduce communication overhead and enable obstacle avoidance. Experimental results on triangular, square, and hexagonal formations confirm its
Luoyin Zhao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomous Antidisturbance Flight Control of Tilt-Rotor UAV in Complex Environment of Ultralow Altitude

open access: yesInternational Journal of Aerospace Engineering
In our work, an algorithm is presented for tilt-rotor UAV clusters in an unknown complex environment, which addresses the challenge of navigating and positioning in complex unknown environments without external navigation and positioning information.
Liben Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cooperative conflict detection and resolution of civil unmanned aerial vehicles in metropolis

open access: yesAdvances in Mechanical Engineering, 2016
Unmanned air vehicles have recently attracted attention of many researchers because of their potential civil applications. A systematic integration of unmanned air vehicles in non-segregated airspace is required that allows safe operation of unmanned air
Jian Yang, Dong Yin, Yifeng Niu, Lei Zhu
doaj   +1 more source

Application of blockchain in the cluster of unmanned aerial vehicles

open access: yesIET Blockchain, 2021
With the considerable exploration of unmanned aerial vehicles in civilian and military fields, the data storage and transmission mechanism of unmanned aerial vehicles exhibit significant security limitations, which cannot meet the strict requirements for
Shiwu Chen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey on Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control Methods for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

open access: yesMachines, 2021
The continuous evolution of modern technology has led to the creation of increasingly complex and advanced systems. This has been also reflected in the technology of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), where the growing demand for more reliable performance ...
G. Fourlas, G. Karras
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cooperative monocular-based SLAM for multi-UAV systems in GPS-denied environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This work presents a cooperative monocular-based SLAM approach for multi-UAV systems that can operate in GPS-denied environments. The main contribution of the work is to show that, using visual information obtained from monocular cameras mounted onboard ...
Grau Saldes, Antoni   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

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