Control of Multiple UAVs for Persistent Surveillance: Algorithm and Flight Test Results

By Stefan R. Bieniawski, Ilan Kroo, John L. Vian. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2012

444 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. Xiwang Dong
2. Vijay R. Kumar
3. Shaojie Shen
4. Yan Zhou
5. Zhang Ren
6. Yisheng Zhong
7. Geng Lu
8. Zongying Shi

In Computer Networks and Communications

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2. Yisheng Zhong
3. Yan Zhou
4. Zhang Ren
5. Geng Lu
6. Zongying Shi
7. Philip M. Dames
8. Shaojie Shen

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

1. Vijay R. Kumar
2. Shaojie Shen
3. Geng Lu
4. Soon-Jo Chung
5. Xiwang Dong
6. Philip M. Dames
7. Aditya A. Paranjape
8. Yisheng Zhong

Citations in the corpus

• Time-varying formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles with switching interaction topologies (2014, background): “Formation control of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm systems has broad potential applications in civilian and military fields such as surveillance [1], drag reduction [2] and telecommunication relay [3], etc.”
• Time-Varying Formation Tracking for Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems Subjected to Switching Topologies With Application to Quadrotor Formation Flying (2017, background): “FORMATION control of Multi-Agent systems has attracted considerable research interest in recent years, and has found applications in a variety of areas, such as drag reduction [1], surveillance [2], telecommunication relay [3], and source seeking [4].”
• A Survey on Aerial Swarm Robotics (2018, methodology): “1) Persistent Monitoring: Early works in multi-UAV persistent monitoring used a heuristic approach to extend traditional single-UAVsolutions tomultipleUAVs [175], [176].”
• Theory and Experiment on Formation-Containment Control of Multiple Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems (2019, background): “COOPERATIVE control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems has been a hot research topic in recent years due to its broad potential applications in many practical areas, such as source seeking [1], [2], load transportation [3], localization [4], drag reduction [5], surveillance [6], [7], ”
• Time-Varying Formation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Theories and Applications (2015, background): “FORMATION control of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm systems has received considerable interests in recent years due to its broad potential applications in civilian and military areas, such as drag reduction [1], surveillance and reconnaissance [2], [3], radiation detection and contour mapping [”