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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Gaussian Signalling for Covert Communications
Shihao Yan, Yirui Cong, Stephen Hanly +1
In this work, we examine the optimality of Gaussian signalling for covert communications with an upper bound on or as th…
Covert Communication with Finite Blocklength in AWGN Channels
Shihao Yan, Biao He, Yirui Cong +1
Covert communication is to achieve a reliable transmission from a transmitter to a receiver while guaranteeing an arbitrarily small probability of this transmission being detected…
Rate-Achieving Policy in Finite-Horizon Throughput Region for Multi-User Interference Channels
Yirui Cong, Xiangyun Zhou, Rodney A. Kennedy
This paper studies a wireless network consisting of multiple transmitter-receiver pairs sharing the same spectrum where interference is regarded as noise. Previously, the throughpu…
Finite-Horizon Throughput Region for Wireless Multi-User Interference Channels
Yirui Cong, Xiangyun Zhou, Rodney A. Kennedy
This paper studies a wireless network consisting of multiple transmitter-receiver pairs where interference is treated as noise. Previously, the throughput region of such networks w…
Offline Delay-Optimal Transmission for Energy Harvesting Nodes
Yirui Cong, Xiangyun Zhou
This paper investigates the offline packet-delay-minimization problem for an energy harvesting transmitter. To overcome the non-convexity of the problem, we propose a C2-diffeomorp…
Event-Trigger Based Robust-Optimal Control for Energy Harvesting Transmitter
Yirui Cong, Xiangyun Zhou
This paper studies an online algorithm for an energy harvesting transmitter, where the transmission (completion) time is considered as the system performance. Unlike the existing o…
Multi-Agent Distributed Coordination Control: Developments and Directions
Xiangke Wang, Xun Li, Yirui Cong +2
In this paper, the recent developments on distributed coordination control, especially the consensus and formation control, are summarized with the graph theory playing a central r…
Interference Prediction in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with a General Mobility Model
Yirui Cong, Xiangyun Zhou, Rodney A. Kennedy
In a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), effective prediction of time-varying interferences can enable adaptive transmission designs and therefore improve the communication performance.…