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Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) navigation in subterranean environments is gaining attention in the field of aerial robotics, however there are still multiple challenges for collision free navigation in such harsh environments. This article…

This article presents a state feedback control design strategy for the stabilization of a vehicle along a reference collision avoidance maneuver. The stabilization of the vehicle is achieved through a combination of steering, acceleration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Penco Dario , Davins-Valldaura Joan , Godoy Emmanuel , Kvieska Pedro , Valmorbida Giorgio

Reactive collision avoidance is essential for agile robots navigating complex and dynamic environments, enabling real-time obstacle response. However, this task is inherently challenging because it requires a tight integration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alessandro Saviolo , Niko Picello , Jeffrey Mao , Rishabh Verma , Giuseppe Loianno

In this paper, we propose, discuss, and validate an online Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) method for multi-rotor aerial systems with arbitrarily positioned and oriented rotors which simultaneously addresses the local reference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Davide Bicego , Jacopo Mazzetto , Ruggero Carli , Marcello Farina , Antonio Franchi

Aerial manipulator, which is composed of an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and a multi-link manipulator and can perform aerial manipulation, has shown great potential of applications. However, dynamic coupling between the UAV and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Guangyu Zhang , Yuqing He , Bo Dai , Feng Gu , Jianda Han , Guangjun Liu

This paper presents a novel solution for UAV control in cooperative multi-robot systems, which can be used in various scenarios such as leader-following, landing on a moving base, or specific relative motion with a target. Unlike classical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Baozhe Zhang , Xinwei Chen , Zhehan Li , Giovanni Beltrame , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

Online path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems is considered a challenging task. It needs to ensure collision-free path planning in real-time, especially when the multi-UAV systems can become very crowded on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Huaxing Huang , Guijie Zhu , Zhun Fan , Hao Zhai , Yuwei Cai , Ze Shi , Zhaohui Dong , Zhifeng Hao

This paper presents a three dimensional collision avoidance approach for aerial vehicles inspired by coordinated behaviors in biological groups. The proposed strategy aims to enable a group of vehicles to converge to a common destination…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Céline Parzani , Francis Filbet

This paper proposes a novel approach to motion planning and decision-making for automated vehicles, using a multi-modal Model Predictive Path Integral control algorithm. The method samples with Sobol sequences around the prior input and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Alberto Bertipaglia , Dariu M. Gavrila , Barys Shyrokau

This paper presents a new flight control framework for tilt-rotor multirotor uncrewed aerial vehicles (MRUAVs). Tiltrotor designs offer full actuation but introduce complexity in control allocation due to actuator redundancy. We propose a…

This article presents a Visual Servoing Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) scheme for autonomously tracking a moving target using multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The scheme is developed for surveillance and tracking of…

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper introduces a control architecture for real-time and onboard control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments with obstacles using the Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) methodology. MPPI allows the use of the full…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Michal Minarik , Robert Penicka , Vojtech Vonasek , Martin Saska

Connected and automated vehicles provide a new opportunity for highly advanced collision avoidance, in which several cars cooperate to reach an optimal overall outcome, that no single car acting in isolation could achieve. For example, one…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Charles Wartnaby , Daniele Bellan

Although extensive research in emergency collision avoidance has been carried out for straight or curved roads in a highway scenario, a general method that could be implemented for all road environments has not been thoroughly explored.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Xu Shang , Azim Eskandarian

This paper presents a method for path-following for quadcopter trajectories in real time. Non-Linear Guidance Logic is used to find the intercepts of the subsequent destination. Trajectory tracking is implemented by formulating the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Gautham Vasan , Arun Kumar Singh , Madhava Krishna

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are now becoming increasingly accessible to amateur and commercial users alike. The main task for UAVs is to keep a prescribed separation with obstacles in the air. In this paper, a collision-avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Quan Quan , Rao Fu , Kai-Yuan Cai

UAV control system is a huge and complex system, and to design and test a UAV control system is time-cost and money-cost. This paper considered the simulation of identification of a nonlinear system dynamics using artificial neural networks…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bhaskar Prasad Rimal , Idris E. Putro , Agus Budiyono , Dugki Min , Eunmi Choi

Navigating complex environments requires Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous systems to perform trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance in real-time. While many control strategies have effectively utilized linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Lara Laban , Mariusz Wzorek , Piotr Rudol , Tommy Persson

This paper proposes a decentralized trajectory planning framework for the collision avoidance problem of multiple micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) in environments with static and dynamic obstacles. The framework utilizes spatiotemporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Siyuan Wu , Gang Chen , Moji Shi , Javier Alonso-Mora