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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Multi-UAV"”.
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Robust multi-UAV planning in dynamic and uncertain environments
Future unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to operate with higher level of autonomy to execute very complex military and civilian applications. New methods in planning and execution are required to coordinate these vehicles in real-time to ensure maximal efficiency of the team activities. …
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Real-time control architecture for a multi UAV test bed
… control architecture running at real-time for a multi unmanned aerial vehicle test bed formed by three AscTec Hummingbird mini quadrotors. The reliable and reconfigurable architecture presented here has a FPGA-based embedded system as main controller. Under the implemented control system, …
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Distributed coordination and control experiments on a multi-UAV testbed
… than 20 successful flights on a fully automated UAV testbed.
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Safe navigation and motion coordination control strategies for unmanned aerial vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become very popular for many military and civilian applications including in agriculture, construction, mining, environmental monitoring, etc. A desirable feature for UAVs is the ability to navigate and perform tasks autonomously with least human interaction. …
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Automated ground maintenance and health management for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles
Automated ground maintenance is a necessity for multi-UAV systems. Without such automation, these systems will become more of a burden than a benefit as human operators struggle to contend with maintenance operations for large numbers of vehicles. By creating autonomous UAV systems that can take …
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StarVis : a configural decision support tool for schedule management of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles
As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become increasingly autonomous, current single-UAV operations involving multiple personnel could transition to a single operator simultaneously supervising multiple UAVs in high-level control tasks. These time-critical, single-operator systems will require advance …
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System Architectures for Cooperative Teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Interacting Physically with the Environment
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become quite a useful tool for a wide range of applications, from inspection & maintenance to search & rescue, among others. The capabilities of a single UAV can be extended or complemented by the deployment of more UAVs, so multi-UAV cooperative teams are …
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Practical reinforcement learning using representation learning and safe exploration for large scale Markov decision processes
… to realistic domains such as planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has remained a challenge due to three main factors: 1) RL methods often require a plethora of data to find reasonable policies, 2) the agent has limited computation time between interactions, and 3) while …
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Formulation of control strategies for requirement definition of multi-agent surveillance systems
In a multi-agent system (MAS), the overall performance is greatly influenced by both the design and the control of the agents. The physical design determines the agent capabilities, and the control strategies drive the agents to pursue their objectives using the available capabilities. The …
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Securing the ADS-B Protocol for Attack-resilient Multiple UAV Collision Avoidance
… adopted for use in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as the primary source of information for emerging multi-UAV collision avoidance algorithms. The lack of security features in ADS-B leaves any processes dependent upon the information vulnerable to a variety of threats from compromised and …
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Multiple UAV Cooperation For Wildfire Monitoring
… thesis is dedicated to the topic of utilizing multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to cooperatively monitor a large-scale wildfire. This is achieved through wildfire spreading situation estimation based on on-line measurements and wise cooperation strategy to ensure efficiency. First, based …
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Flight Vehicle Control and Aerobiological Sampling Applications
… sampling using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an exciting research field blending various scientific and engineering disciplines. The biological data collected using UAVs helps to better understand the atmospheric transport of microorganisms. Autopilot-equipped UAVs can accurately …
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Place recognition for GNSS-denied autonomous multi-robot search and rescue
Teams of agile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) possess great potential for search and rescue missions requiring a rapid response over a large region of interest. With proper coordination, these robotic vehicles can leverage affordable hardware to efficiently search a remote region or disaster site …
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Dynamic mission planning for communication control in multiple unmanned aircraft teams
… technologies continue to progress, teams of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles will play an increasingly important role in civilian and military applications. A multi-UAV system relies on communications to operate. Failure to communicate remotely sensed mission data to the base may render the …
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Performance Analysis and Learning Algorithms in Advanced Wireless Networks
… an exponential growth, especially with multimedia traffic becoming the dominant traffic, and such growth is expected to continue in the near future. This unprecedented growth has led to an increasing demand for high-rate wireless communications.Key solutions for addressing such demand …
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Trajectory planning under motion and sensing uncertainties: reachability analysis and connectivity maintenance
… surveillance and cinematography. Additionally, multi-robot systems are being increasingly considered for applications such as exploration, target tracking and formation control. A vital component of these robotic systems is planning trajectories that are collision-safe. Furthermore, for …
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Multiagent planning and learning using random decompositions and adaptive representations
Multiagent planning problems are ubiquitous in engineering. Applications range from control of robotic missions and manufacturing processes to resource allocation and traffic monitoring problems. A common theme in all of these missions is the existence of stochastic dynamics that stem from the …
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UAV-Enabled Wireless Communications: Deployment, Optimization, and Analysis
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), known as drones, are a promising solution, as aerial base stations (BSs) or relays, in wireless communications systems. Due to their high likelihood of line-of-sight (LoS) links and ease of deployment, they play a crucial role in providing faster and better wireless …
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Consensus-based Control of Multi-Agent Systems: Distributed Target Tracking and Analysis of Time Delays
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment