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Feedback formation control of UAV swarm with multiple implicit leaders
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A novel formation control algorithm suitable for both leaders and followers is designed, in which leaders are implicitly integrated into the swarm and can be influenced by navigational feedback from their flockmates.About:
This article is published in Aerospace Science and Technology.The article was published on 2018-01-01. It has received 90 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Swarm behaviour.read more
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) : Collision Avoidance Systems and Approaches
Jawad N. Yasin,Sherif A. S. Mohamed,Mohammad-Hashem Haghbayan,Jukka Heikkonen,Hannu Tenhunen,Juha Plosila +5 more
TL;DR: An in-depth survey of different collision avoidance techniques that are categorically explained along with a comparative analysis of the considered approaches w.r.t. different scenarios and technical aspects is provided.
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Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Communication Architectures and Routing Protocols
Xi Chen,Jun Tang,Songyang Lao +2 more
TL;DR: A systematic overview and feasibility research of routing protocols of UAV swarm communication architectures including the advantages and disadvantages are presented in this paper.
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Reinforcement learning based two-level control framework of UAV swarm for cooperative persistent surveillance in an unknown urban area
TL;DR: A two-level quasi-distributed control framework is proposed for realizing the continuous control of a UAV swarm in two defined surveillance phases and an optimal high-level strategy combination is identified.
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Virtual target guidance-based distributed model predictive control for formation control of multiple UAVs
TL;DR: Numerical simulations show that the proposed VTG-based distributed MPC scheme is more computationally efficient to achieve formation control of multiple UAVs in comparison with the traditional distributed MPP method.
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A formation maintenance and reconstruction method of UAV swarm based on distributed control
TL;DR: The simulation results show that the UAV swarm can generate, maintain and reconstruct the desired formation in a real-time distributed manner while avoiding obstacles effectively.
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Flocking for multi-agent dynamic systems: algorithms and theory
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Behavior-based formation control for multirobot teams
Tucker Balch,Ronald C. Arkin +1 more
TL;DR: New reactive behaviors that implement formations in multirobot teams are presented and evaluated and demonstrate the value of various types of formations in autonomous, human-led and communications-restricted applications, and their appropriateness in different types of task environments.
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A survey of multi-agent formation control
TL;DR: A survey of formation control of multi-agent systems focuses on the sensing capability and the interaction topology of agents, and categorizes the existing results into position-, displacement-, and distance-based control.
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Flocking of Multi-Agents With a Virtual Leader
TL;DR: Modification to the Olfati-Saber algorithm is proposed and it is shown that the resulting algorithm enables the asymptotic tracking of the virtual leader.
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Distributed leader-follower flocking control for multi-agent dynamical systems with time-varying velocities
TL;DR: A distributed leader-follower flocking algorithm for multi-agent dynamical systems with time-varying velocities is developed where each agent is governed by second-order dynamics.