Large Scale Cooperative UAS: Control Theory and Applications
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X). This special issue belongs to the section "Drone Design and Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2023) | Viewed by 4169
Special Issue Editors
Interests: motion planning; collision avoidance
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Interests: unmanned air vehicles; modeling and simulation; flight controls; cooperative control of unmanned air vehicles
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Interests: optimal control; robust control machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few years, we have seen increasing interest in the study of large-scale multi-unmanned aerial systems (UASs), with applications in engineering and science problems. This interest is largely motivated by the advent of powerful and miniaturized embedded systems, sensors, and communication networks. For example, flight controllers have evolved from simple stability augmentation systems, barely enabling an external unexperienced pilot to remotely fly a multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle, to fully fledged command augmentation systems, opening up the possibilities of autonomous operations of large-scale cooperative UASs.
This Special Issue aims at collecting new theory, developments, methodologies, and applications of large-scale multiple UASs.
We welcome submissions that provide the community with the most recent advancements on all aspects of large-scale cooperative UASs. These include, but are not limited to, multi-agent coordination, cooperative control, flocking, swarming and counter-swarming, consensus, formation, multi-agent motion planning and collision avoidance, cooperative learning, and graph-related theory. Also relevant are the applications of the theory developed in the areas of multi-vehicle systems for spacecraft, ground robots, and maritime vehicles. Applications include multi-agent target localization, object recognition, search and rescue, communications, defense, and transportation, to mention but a few.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Automation.
Dr. Venanzio Cichella
Prof. Dr. Isaac I. Kaminer
Dr. Claire Walton
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-vehicle motion planning
- coordination
- multi-agent deconfliction
- formation control
- swarming
- estimation and localization by multiple robots
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