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A Dual Quaternion Control Law for Formation Control of Multiple 3-D Rigid Bodies
Chunfeng Cui, Liqun Qi, Hao Chen +1
This paper studies the integrated position and attitude control problem for multi-agent systems of 3D rigid bodies. While the state-of-the-art method in [Olfati-Saber and Murray, 2…
A Plug-and-Play Learning-based IMU Bias Factor for Robust Visual-Inertial Odometry
Yang Yi, Kunqing Wang, Jinpu Zhang +4
Accurate and reliable estimation of biases of low-cost Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) is a key factor to maintain the resilience of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), particularly w…
Distributed Framework Construction for Affine Formation Control
Huiming Li, Hao Chen, Xiangke Wang +2
In affine formation control problems, the construction of the framework with universal rigidity and affine localizability is a critical prerequisite, but it has not yet been well a…
Toward Scalable Multirobot Control: Fast Policy Learning in Distributed MPC
Xinglong Zhang, Wei Pan, Cong Li +4
Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) is promising in achieving optimal cooperative control in multirobot systems (MRS). However, real-time DMPC implementation relies on nume…
Formation Under Communication Constraints: Control Performance Meets Channel Capacity
Yaru Chen, Yirui Cong, Xiangyun Zhou +2
In wireless communication-based formation control systems, the control performance is significantly impacted by the channel capacity of each communication link between agents. This…
Cooperative Filtering with Range Measurements: A Distributed Constrained Zonotopic Method
Yu Ding, Yirui Cong, Xiangke Wang +1
This article studies the distributed estimation problem of a multi-agent system with bounded absolute and relative range measurements. Parts of the agents are with high-accuracy ab…
Bearing-based Simultaneous Localization and Affine Formation Tracking for Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Li Huiming, Sun Zhiyong, Chen Hao +2
This paper studies the bearing-based simultaneous localization and affine formation tracking (SLAFT) control problem for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the consider…
Set-Membership Filtering-Based Cooperative State Estimation for Multi-Agent Systems
Yu Ding, Yirui Cong, Xiangke Wang
In this article, we focus on the cooperative state estimation problem of a multi-agent system. Each agent is equipped with absolute and relative measurements. The purpose of this r…
Distributed Set-membership Filtering Frameworks For Multi-agent Systems With Absolute and Relative Measurements
Yu Ding, Yirui Cong, Xiangke Wang
In this paper, we focus on the distributed set-membership filtering (SMFing) problem for a multi-agent system with absolute (taken from agents themselves) and relative (taken from…
Integrated Design of Cooperative Area Coverage and Target Tracking with Multi-UAV System
Mengge Zhang, Jie Li, Xiangke Wang
This paper systematically studies the cooperative area coverage and target tracking problem of multiple-unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs). The problem is solved by decomposing…
Augmented Quaternion and Augmented Unit Quaternion Optimization
Liqun Qi, Xiangke Wang, Chunfeng Cui
In this paper, we introduce and explore augmented quaternions and augmented unit quaternions, and present an augmented unit quaternion optimization model. An augmented quaternion c…
Roto-Translation Invariant Formation of Fixed-Wing UAVs in 3D: Feasibility and Control
Xiaodong He, Zhongkui Li, Xiangke Wang +1
This paper investigates the formation of fixed-wing UAVs in 3D, which communicate via a directed acyclic graph. Different from common formation problems, we consider the roto-trans…
Dual Quaternion Matrices in Multi-Agent Formation Control
Liqun Qi, Xiangke Wang, Ziyan Luo
Three kinds of dual quaternion matrices associated with the mutual visibility graph, namely the relative configuration adjacency matrix, the logarithm adjacency matrix and the rela…
Stability of Linear Set-Membership Filters With Respect to Initial Conditions: An Observation-Information Perspective
Yirui Cong, Xiangke Wang, Xiangyun Zhou
The issue of filter stability with respect to (w.r.t.) the initial condition refers to the unreliable filtering process caused by improper prior information of the initial state. T…
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…
Optimal control of nonlinear systems with unsymmetrical input constraints and its applications to the UAV circumnavigation problem
Yangguang Yu, Xiangke Wang, Zhiyong Sun +1
In this paper, a novel design scheme is introduced to solve the optimal control problem for nonlinear systems with unsymmetrical and state-dependent input constraints. By introduci…
Implementation of UAV Coordination Based on a Hierarchical Multi-UAV Simulation Platform
Kun Xiao, Lan Ma, Shaochang Tan +2
In this paper, a hierarchical multi-UAV simulation platform,called XTDrone, is designed for UAV swarms, which is completely open-source 4 . There are six layers in XTDrone: communi…
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…
Mission Oriented Miniature Fixed-wing UAV Swarms: A Multi-layered and Distributed Architecture
Zhihong Liu, Xiangke Wang, Lincheng Shen +6
UAV swarms have triggered wide concern due to their potential application values in recent years. While there are studies proposed in terms of the architecture design for UAV swarm…
Coordinated Path Following Control of Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Hao Chen, Yirui Cong, Xiangke Wang +2
In this paper, we investigate the problem of coordinated path following for fixed-wing UAVs with speed constraints in 2D plane. The objective is to steer a fleet of UAVs along the…