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20182023
most citedA Comprehensive Review of Shepherding as a Bio-inspired Swarm-Robotics Guidance Approach

118 citations · 258 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2023

The race to robustness: exploiting fragile models for urban camouflage and the imperative for machine learning security

Harriet Farlow, Matthew Garratt, Gavin Mount +1

Adversarial Machine Learning (AML) represents the ability to disrupt Machine Learning (ML) algorithms through a range of methods that broadly exploit the architecture of deep learn…

cs.MA2023

Coverage Path Planning with Budget Constraints for Multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Vu Phi Tran, Asanka Perera, Matthew A. Garratt +2

This paper proposes a state-machine model for a multi-modal, multi-robot environmental sensing algorithm. This multi-modal algorithm integrates two different exploration algorithms…

cs.CV2022

Lightweight Monocular Depth Estimation with an Edge Guided Network

Xingshuai Dong, Matthew A. Garratt, Sreenatha G. Anavatti +2

Monocular depth estimation is an important task that can be applied to many robotic applications. Existing methods focus on improving depth estimation accuracy via training increas…

cs.LG2022★ 15 cited

Response Component Analysis for Sea State Estimation Using Artificial Neural Networks and Vessel Response Spectral Data

Nathan K. Long, Daniel Sgarioto, Matthew Garratt +1

The use of the `ship as a wave buoy analogy' (SAWB) provides a novel means to estimate sea states, where relationships are established between causal wave properties and vessel mot…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

Robust Fuzzy Q-Learning-Based Strictly Negative Imaginary Tracking Controllers for the Uncertain Quadrotor Systems

Vu Phi Tran, M. A Mabrok, Sreenatha G. Anavatti +2

Quadrotors are one of the popular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to their versatility and simple design. However, the tuning of gains for quadrotor flight controllers can be l…

cs.RO2021

MobileXNet: An Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Monocular Depth Estimation

Xingshuai Dong, Matthew A. Garratt, Sreenatha G. Anavatti +1

Depth is a vital piece of information for autonomous vehicles to perceive obstacles. Due to the relatively low price and small size of monocular cameras, depth estimation from a si…

cs.RO2021★ 6 cited

Towards Real-Time Monocular Depth Estimation for Robotics: A Survey

Xingshuai Dong, Matthew A. Garratt, Sreenatha G. Anavatti +1

As an essential component for many autonomous driving and robotic activities such as ego-motion estimation, obstacle avoidance and scene understanding, monocular depth estimation (…

cs.RO2021

Frontier-led Swarming: Robust Multi-Robot Coverage of Unknown Environments

Vu Phi Tran, Matthew A. Garratt, Kathryn Kasmarik +1

This paper proposes a novel swarm-based control algorithm for exploration and coverage of unknown environments, while maintaining a formation that permits short-range communication…

cs.RO2020★ 3 cited

Continuous Deep Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Ground-Air Swarm Shepherding

Hung The Nguyen, Tung Duy Nguyen, Vu Phi Tran +5

The control and guidance of multi-robots (swarm) is a non-trivial problem due to the complexity inherent in the coupled interaction among the group. Whether the swarm is cooperativ…

cs.RO2019★ 118 cited

A Comprehensive Review of Shepherding as a Bio-inspired Swarm-Robotics Guidance Approach

Nathan K Long, Karl Sammut, Daniel Sgarioto +2

The simultaneous control of multiple coordinated robotic agents represents an elaborate problem. If solved, however, the interaction between the agents can lead to solutions to sop…

cs.NE2019★ 13 cited

Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Nonlinear Control Problems

Huanneng Qiu, Matthew Garratt, David Howard +1

Spiking Neural Networks are powerful computational modelling tools that have attracted much interest because of the bioinspired modelling of synaptic interactions between neurons.…

cs.MA2018★ 64 cited

Time-Varying Formation Control of a Collaborative Multi-Agent System Using Negative-Imaginary Systems Theory

Vu Phi Tran, Matthew Garratt, Ian R. Petersen

The movement of cooperative robots in a densely cluttered environment may not be possible if the formation type is invariant. Hence, we investigate a new method for time-varying fo…

cs.MA2018★ 1 cited

Distributed Obstacle and Multi-Robot Collision Avoidance in Uncertain Environments

Vu Phi Tran, Matthew Garratt, Ian R. Petersen

This paper tackles the distributed leader-follower (L-F) control problem for heterogeneous mobile robots in unknown environments requiring obstacle avoidance, inter-robot collision…

cs.RO2018★ 2 cited

PAC: A Novel Self-Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Controller for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Mahardhika Pratama, Sreenatha G. Anavatti +2

There exists an increasing demand for a flexible and computationally efficient controller for micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) due to a high degree of environmental perturbations. In t…

cs.RO2018★ 2 cited

Apprenticeship Bootstrapping Via Deep Learning with a Safety Net for UAV-UGV Interaction

Hung Nguyen, Vu Tran, Tung Nguyen +5

In apprenticeship learning (AL), agents learn by watching or acquiring human demonstrations on some tasks of interest. However, the lack of human demonstrations in novel tasks wher…

cs.RO2018★ 1 cited

Development of a Sliding Mode Control Based Adaptive Fuzzy Controller for a Flapping Flight

Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Sreenatha G. Anavatti, Matthew A. Garratt +1

Controlling of a flapping flight is one of the recent research topics related to the field of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle (FW MAV). In this work, an adaptive control system for…

cs.NE2018★ 32 cited

Review of Applications of Generalized Regression Neural Networks in Identification and Control of Dynamic Systems

Ahmad Jobran Al-Mahasneh, Sreenatha G. Anavatti, Matthew A. Garratt

This paper depicts a brief revision of Generalized Regression Neural Networks (GRNN) applications in system identification and control of dynamic systems. In addition, a comparison…

eess.SY2018

A Generic Self-Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Controller based High-performance Hexacopter Altitude Control System

Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Mahardhika Pratama, Sreenatha G. Anavatti +1

Nowadays, the application of fully autonomous system like rotary wing unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) is increasing sharply. Due to the complex nonlinear dynamics, a huge research int…

cs.NE2018

PALM: An Incremental Construction of Hyperplanes for Data Stream Regression

Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Mahardhika Pratama, Sreenatha G. Anavatti +1

Data stream has been the underlying challenge in the age of big data because it calls for real-time data processing with the absence of a retraining process and/or an iterative lea…

eess.SY2018

Development of c-means Clustering Based Adaptive Fuzzy Controller for A Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle

Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Sreenatha G. Anavatti, Matthew A. Garratt +1

Advanced and accurate modelling of a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle (FW MAV) and its control is one of the recent research topics related to the field of autonomous Unmanned Aeria…