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Deep and Decentralized Multi-Agent Coverage of a Target with Unknown Distribution
Hossein Rastgoftar
This paper proposes a new architecture for multi-agent systems to cover an unknowingly distributed fast, safely, and decentralizedly. The inter-agent communication is organized by…
Can a Laplace PDE Define Air Corridors through Low-Altitude Airspace?
Aeris El Asslouj, Ella Atkins, Hossein Rastgoftar
This paper develops a high-density air corridor traffic flow model for Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) operation in urban low altitude airspace. To maximize throughput with safe sep…
Multi-Agent Coordination Fluid Flow Modeling and Experimental Evaluation
Harshvardhan Uppaluru, Mohammad Ghuran, Hossein Rastgoftar
Reliability is a critical aspect of multi-agent system coordination as it ensures that the system functions correctly and consistently. If one agent in the system fails or behaves…
A Finite-State Fixed-Corridor Model for UAS Traffic Management
Hamid Emadi, Ella Atkins, Hossein Rastgoftar
This paper proposes a physics-inspired solution for low altitude Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) in urban areas. We decompose UTM into spatial and temporal…
A Concurrent Switching Model for Traffic Congestion Control
Hossein Rastgoftar, Xun Liu, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin
We introduce a new conservation-based approach for traffic coordination modeling and control in a network of interconnected roads (NOIR) with switching movement phase rotations at…
A Physics-Based Data-Driven Approach for Finite Time Estimation of Pandemic Growth
Harshvardhan Uppaluru, Hamid Emadi, Hossein Rastgoftar
COVID-19 is a global health crisis that has had unprecedented, widespread impact on households across the United States and has been declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 by…
Boundary Control of Traffic Congestion Modeled as a Non-stationary Stochastic Process
Xun Liu, Hossein Rastgoftar
In this paper, we introduce a new conservation-based approach to model traffic dynamics, and apply the model predictive control (MPC) approach to control the boundary traffic inflo…
Conservation-Based Modeling and Boundary Control of Congestion with an Application to Traffic Management in Center City Philadelphia
Xun Liu, Hossein Rastgoftar
This paper develops a conservation-based approach to model traffic dynamics and alleviate traffic congestion in a network of interconnected roads (NOIR). We generate a NOIR by usin…
A Physics-Based Finite-State Abstraction for Traffic Congestion Control
Hossein Rastgoftar, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin
This paper offers a finite-state abstraction of traffic coordination and congestion in a network of interconnected roads (NOIR). By applying mass conservation, we model traffic coo…
Scalable Vehicle Team Continuum Deformation Coordination with Eigen Decomposition
Hossein Rastgoftar, Ella M. Atkins, Ilya Kolmanovsky
The continuum deformation leader-follower cooperative control strategy models vehicles in a multi-agent system as particles of a deformable body. A desired continuum deformation is…
An Integrative Data-Driven Physics-Inspired Approach to Traffic Congestion Control
Hossein Rastgoftar, Ella Atkins
This paper offers an integrative data-driven physics-inspired approach to model and control traffic congestion in a resilient and efficient manner. While existing physics-based app…
Resilient Continuum Deformation Coordination
Hossein Rastgoftar, Ella Atkins
This paper applies the principles of continuum mechanics to safely and resiliently coordinate a multi-agent team. A hybrid automation with two operation modes, Homogeneous Deformat…
Formal Specification of Continuum Deformation Coordination
Hossein Rastgoftar, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Ella Atkins
Continuum deformation is a leader-follower multiagent cooperative control approach. Previous work showed a desired continuum deformation can be uniquely defined based on trajectori…
Physics-Based Freely Scalable Continuum Deformation for UAS Traffic Coordination
Hossein Rastgoftar, Ella Atkins
This paper develops a novel physics-inspired traffic coordination approach and applies it to Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) traffic management. We extend available physics-inspired…
Experimental Evaluation of Continuum Deformation with a Five Quadrotor Team
Matthew Romano, Prince Kuevor, Derek Lukacs +5
This paper experimentally evaluates continuum deformation cooperative control for the first time. Theoretical results are expanded to place a bounding triangle on the leader-follow…
Multi-UAV Continuum Deformation Flight Optimization in Cluttered Urban Environments
Hossein Rastgoftar, Ella Atkins
This paper studies collective motion optimization of a fleet of UAVs flying over a populated and geometrically constrained area. The paper treats UAVs as particles of a deformable…
Continuum Deformation of a Multiple Quadcopter Payload Delivery Team without Inter-Agent Communication
Hossein Rastgoftar, Ella M. Atkins
This paper proposes continuum deformation as a strategy for controlling the collective motion of a multiple quadcopter system (MQS) carrying a common payload. Continuum deformation…