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Urban Air Mobility is a new concept of regional aviation that has been growing in popularity as a solution to the issue of ever-increasing ground traffic. Electric vehicles with vertical take-off and landing capabilities are being developed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Isha Panchal , Sophie F. Armanini , Isabel C. Metz

Multiple multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles sharing the same airspace require a reliable and robust collision avoidance technique. In this paper we address the problem of multi-MAV reactive collision avoidance. A model-based controller is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Mina Kamel , Javier Alonso-Mora , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

As air traffic volume is continuously increasing, it has become a priority to improve traffic control algorithms to handle future air travel demand and improve airspace capacity. We address the conflict resolution problem in air traffic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Fernando H. C. Dias , Stephanie Rahme , David Rey

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

The utilisation of unmanned aerial vehicles has witnessed significant growth in real-world applications including surveillance tasks, military missions, and transportation deliveries. This letter investigates practical problems of formation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Anh Tung Nguyen , Ji-Won Lee , Thanh Binh Nguyen , Sung Kyung Hong

This paper considers how to ensure that a system of fixed wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can avoid collisions. To do so we develop a novel method for creating a barrier function, which is similar to a Lyapunov function and can be used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Eric Squires , Pietro Pierpaoli , Rohit Konda , Samuel Coogan , Magnus Egerstedt

The practical problem of tracking a maneuvering aircraft during flight has always been a crucial task in order to safeguard airborne assets from unknown threats. Therefore, the need for an efficient target detection and identification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Raja Manish , David Webster

Designing robust machine learning systems remains an open problem, and there is a need for benchmark problems that cover both environmental changes and evaluation on a downstream task. In this work, we introduce AVOIDDS, a realistic object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Elysia Q. Smyers , Sydney M. Katz , Anthony L. Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Recent advances in multi-agent systems manipulation have demonstrated a rising demand for the implementation of multi-UAV systems in urban areas which are always subjected to the presence of static and dynamic obstacles. The focus of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Sharif , Yaser Banad

The high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport. Path-following is a crucial way to perform these tasks while sensing and collision avoidance are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Haoyue Jiang , Zhiyong Feng

This work addresses the path planning problem for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to maintain a desired formation during operation. Our approach formulates the problem as an optimization task by defining a set of fitness…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Van Truong Hoang , Manh Duong Phung

Ensuring safety for spacecraft operations has become a paramount concern due to the proliferation of space debris and the saturation of valuable orbital regimes. In this regard, the Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre (CAM) has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Zeno Pavanello , Luigi De Maria , Andrea De Vittori , Michele Maestrini , Pierluigi Di Lizia , Roberto Armellin

Reliance on external localization infrastructure and centralized coordination are main limiting factors for formation flying of vehicles in large numbers and in unprepared environments. While solutions using onboard localization address the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Parker C. Lusk , Xiaoyi Cai , Samir Wadhwania , Aleix Paris , Kaveh Fathian , Jonathan P. How

In this paper, we address the problem of collision avoidance for a swarm of UAVs used for continuous surveillance of an urban environment. Our method, LSwarm, efficiently avoids collisions with static obstacles, dynamic obstacles and other…

This paper addresses the problem of motion planning for differential drive micro-mobility platforms. This class of vehicle is designed to perform small-distance transportation of passengers and goods in structured environments. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Angelo Caregnato-Neto , Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira

Separation provision and collision avoidance to avoid other air traffic are fundamental components of the layered conflict management system to ensure safe and efficient operations. Pilots have visual-based separation responsibilities to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ngaire Underhill , Evan Maki , Bilal Gill , Andrew Weinert

This paper presents a novel collision avoidance strategy for unmanned aircraft detect and avoid that requires only information about the relative bearing angle between an aircraft and hazard. It is shown that this bearing-only strategy can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Timothy L. Molloy , Tristan Perez , Brendan P. Williams

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have gained significant traction as a means of improving the autonomy of marine vehicles over the last few years. This article surveys the recent ML approaches utilised for ship collision avoidance (COLAV)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Pouria Sarhadi , Wasif Naeem , Nikolaos Athanasopoulos

In this paper, we present an on-board vision-based approach for avoidance of moving obstacles in dynamic environments. Our approach relies on an efficient obstacle detection and tracking algorithm based on depth image pairs, which provides…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Jiahao Lin , Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora

Autonomous navigation in unknown environments with obstacles remains challenging for micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) due to their limited onboard computing and sensing resources. Although various collision avoidance methods have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ruoyu Wang , Zixuan Guo , Yizhou Chen , Xinyi Wang , Ben M. Chen