Time Critical Cooperative Control of Autonomous Air Vehicles

• Author : Isaac Kaminer,António M. Pascoal,Enric Xargay,Naira Hovakimyan,Venanzio Cichella,Vladimir Dobrokhodov
• Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
• Release : 02 August 2017

Time-Critical Cooperative Control of Autonomous Air Vehicles presents, in an easy-to-read style, the latest research conducted in the industry, while also introducing a set of novel ideas that illuminate a new approach to problem-solving. The book is virtually self-contained, giving the reader a complete, integrated presentation of the different concepts, mathematical tools, and control solutions needed to tackle and solve a number of problems concerning time-critical cooperative control of UAVs. By including case studies of fixed-wing and multirotor UAVs, the

• Author : Yue Wang,Eloy Garcia,Fumin Zhang,David Casbeer
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 08 May 2017

A comprehensive review of the state of the art in the control of multi-agent systems theory and applications The superiority of multi-agent systems over single agents for the control of unmanned air, water and ground vehicles has been clearly demonstrated in a wide range of application areas. Their large-scale spatial distribution, robustness, high scalability and low cost enable multi-agent systems to achieve tasks that could not successfully be performed by even the most sophisticated single agent systems. Cooperative Control of

• Author : Bijoy Ghosh,Clyde F. Martin,Yishao Zhou
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 06 October 2009

Papers in this collection partly represent the set of talks that were presented at Texas Tech University on the occasion of Daya’s memorial workshop in the year 2007. Daya had a varied interest in the field of Dynamics and Control Theory and the papers bring out the essence of his involvement in these activities. He also had a large number of collaborators and this collection represent a good fraction of them. The papers included here cover his interest in control

• Author : Daniel Choukroun,Yaakov Oshman,Julie Thienel,Moshe Idan
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 02 January 2015

This book presents selected papers of the Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Sympo- sium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack, professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, was a prominent and world-renowned member of the applied estimation, navigation, and spacecraft attitude determination communities. He touched the lives of many. He had a love for life, an incredible sense of humor, and wisdom that he shared freely with everyone he met. To honor Professor

• Author : Wei Ren,Randal Beard
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 27 October 2007

Assuming only neighbor-neighbor interaction among vehicles, this monograph develops distributed consensus strategies that ensure that the information states of all vehicles in a network converge to a common value. Readers learn to deal with groups of autonomous vehicles in aerial, terrestrial, and submarine environments. Plus, they get the tools needed to overcome impaired communication by using constantly updated neighbor-neighbor interchange.

• Author : Ching-Hsien Hsu,Shangguang Wang,Ao Zhou,Ali Shawkat
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 19 January 2017

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internet of Vehicles, IOV 2016, held in Nadi, Fiji, in December 2016. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. IOV 2016 is intended to play an important role for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IOV architectures, protocols, services, and applications, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of IOV.

• Author : Yasmina Bestaoui Sebbane
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 18 November 2015

With the extraordinary growth of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in research, military, and commercial contexts, there has been a need for a reference that provides a comprehensive look at the latest research in the area. Filling this void, Smart Autonomous Aircraft: Flight Control and Planning for UAV introduces the advanced methods of flight control, planning, situation awareness, and decision making. This book is among the first to emphasize the theoretic and algorithmic side of control and planning in dynamic and

• Author : Haibin Duan,Pei Li
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 02 January 2014

Bio-inspired Computation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles focuses on the aspects of path planning, formation control, heterogeneous cooperative control and vision-based surveillance and navigation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from the perspective of bio-inspired computation. It helps readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of control-related problems in UAVs, presenting the latest advances in bio-inspired computation. By combining bio-inspired computation and UAV control problems, key questions are explored in depth, and each piece is content-rich while remaining accessible. With abundant illustrations of

• Author : Michael Hirsch,Panos M. Pardalos,Robert Murphey,Don Grundel
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 24 October 2007

Across the globe, the past several years have seen a tremendous increase in the role of cooperative autonomous systems. The field of cooperative control and optimization has established itself as a part of many different scientific disciplines. The contents of this hugely important volume, which adds much to the debate on the subject, are culled from papers presented at the Seventh Annual International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, held in Gainesville, Florida, in January 2007.

• Author : Jan Tommy Gravdahl
• Publisher : Springer Verlag
• Release : 19 May 2006

This volume contains the contributions to a Workshop on Group Coordination and Cooperative Control held in Tromsø, Norway, 2006, to focus on control theoretic challenges raised by group coordination and cooperation, and lay a foundation for future research. The book covers a wide range of subjects within the area of group coordination and cooperative control, and forms a valuable and up-to-date text on the newer trends in group coordination and cooperative control.

• Author : Michael Hirsch,Clayton W. Commander,Panos M. Pardalos,Robert Murphey
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 17 January 2009

Cooperative, collaborating autonomous systems are at the forefront of research efforts in numerous disciplines across the applied sciences. There is constant progress in solution techniques for these systems. However, despite this progress, cooperating systems have continued to be extremely difficult to model, analyze, and solve. Theoretical results are very difficult to come by. Each year, the International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization (CCO) brings together top researchers from around the world to present new, cutting-edge, ideas, theories, applications, and

• Author : Kamesh Namuduri,Serge Chaumette,Jae H. Kim,James P. G. Sterbenz
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 30 November 2017

The first book to focus on communications and networking in UAVs, covering theory, applications, regulation, policy, and implementation.

• Author : Meiping Wu
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 16 May 2022

• Author : Yuanqing Xia,Jinhui Zhang,Kunfeng Lu,Ning Zhou
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 02 July 2018

This book focuses on the finite-time control of attitude stabilization, attitude tracking for individual spacecraft, and finite-time control of attitude synchronization. It discusses formation reconfiguration for multiple spacecraft in complex networks, and provides a new fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface (FNTSMS). Further, it presents newly designed controllers and several control laws to enhance the performance of spacecraft systems and meet related demands, such as strong disturbance rejection and high-precision control. As such, the book establishes a fundamental framework for

• Author : Yaniv Altshuler,Alex Pentland,Alfred M. Bruckstein
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 03 August 2017

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theory and tools needed for the development of an efficient and robust infrastructure for the design of collaborative patrolling unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, focusing on its applications for tactical intelligence drones. It discusses frameworks for robustly and near-optimally analyzing flocks of semi-autonomous vehicles designed to efficiently perform the ongoing dynamic patrolling and scanning of pre-defined “search regions”. It discusses the theoretical limitations of such systems, as well as the trade-offs between