Coordination and navigation of heterogeneous MAV-UGV formations localized by a 'hawk-eye'-like approach under a model predictive control scheme

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1393-1412

  Saska, Martin ^a   Vonásek, Vojtěch ^a   Krajník, Tomáš ^b   Přeučil, Libor ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formation control; Model predictive control; Obstacle avoidance; Receding horizon control; Trajectory planning; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Unmanned ground vehicles

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AIR NAVIGATION; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ANTENNAS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; ROBOTS; STABILIZATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COORDINATION AND CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; LEADER-FOLLOWER FORMATIONS; RECEDING HORIZON CONTROL; SEARCH-AND-RESCUE APPLICATIONS; STABILITY AND CONVERGENCE; TRAJECTORY PLANNING; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 84927741885     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364914530482     Document Type: Article

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