8 papers
Time-Efficient Mars Exploration of Simultaneous Coverage and Charging with Multiple Drones
Yuan Chang, Chao Yan, Xingyu Liu +4
This paper presents a time-efficient scheme for Mars exploration by the cooperation of multiple drones and a rover. To maximize effective coverage of the Mars surface in the long r…
Collaborative Target Tracking in Elliptic Coordinates: a Binocular Coordination Approach
Yuan Chang, Zhiyong Sun, Han Zhou +3
This paper concentrates on the collaborative target tracking control of a pair of tracking vehicles with formation constraints. The proposed controller requires only distance measu…
A Benchmark for Multi-UAV Task Assignment of an Extended Team Orienteering Problem
Kun Xiao, Junqi Lu, Ying Nie +3
A benchmark for multi-UAV task assignment is presented in order to evaluate different algorithms. An extended Team Orienteering Problem is modeled for a kind of multi-UAV task assi…
A Hierarchical Collision Avoidance Architecture for Multiple Fixed-Wing UAVs in an Integrated Airspace
Yajing Wang, Xiangke Wang, Shulong Zhao +1
This paper studies the collision avoidance problem for autonomous multiple fixedwing UAVs in the complex integrated airspace. By studying and combining the online path planning met…
Rethinking the Mathematical Framework and Optimality of Set-Membership Filtering
Yirui Cong, Xiangke Wang, Xiangyun Zhou
Set-Membership Filter (SMF) has been extensively studied for state estimation in the presence of bounded noises with unknown statistics. Since it was first introduced in the 1960s,…
XTDrone: A Customizable Multi-Rotor UAVs Simulation Platform
Kun Xiao, Shaochang Tan, Guohui Wang +3
A customizable multi-rotor UAVs simulation platform based on ROS, Gazebo and PX4 is presented. The platform, which is called XTDrone, integrates dynamic models, sensor models, cont…