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CDC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 5 months ago
Backstepping control design for motion coordination of self-propelled vehicles
Motion coordination of autonomous vehicles has applications from target surveillance to climate monitoring. Previous research has yielded stabilizing control laws for a selfpropell...
Rochelle Mellish, Derek A. Paley
ISER
2000
Springer
111views Robotics» more  ISER 2000»
14 years 1 months ago
An Underwater Vehicle Monitoring System and Its Sensors
: This paper describes a virtual collaborative world simulator, DVECS (Distributed Virtual Environment Collaborative Simulator), for underwater robots and its underwater vehicle, S...
Song K. Choi, O. T. Easterday
ICAI
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Decentralized Search by Unmanned Air Vehicles Using Local Communication
: We present a model consisting of an emergent procedure for n unpiloted, autonomous flying munitions to cooperatively conduct a parallel sweeping search of a geographic area for s...
Joseph Schlecht, Karl Altenburg, Benzir Md Ahmed, ...
CDC
2010
IEEE
154views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
A lower bound for controlled Lagrangian particle tracking error
Abstract-- Autonomous underwater vehicles are flexible mobile platforms for ocean sampling and surveillance missions. However, navigation of these vehicles in unstructured, highly ...
Klementyna Szwaykowska, Fumin Zhang
ICRA
2007
IEEE
222views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Autonomous Vision-based Landing and Terrain Mapping Using an MPC-controlled Unmanned Rotorcraft
In this paper, we present a vision-based terrain mapping and analysis system, and a model predictive control (MPC)based flight control system, for autonomous landing of a helicop...
Todd Templeton, David Hyunchul Shim, Christopher G...