Cooperative path planning for multiple UAVs in dynamic and uncertain environments

…, M Tillerson, M Alighanbari… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of cooperative path planning for a fleet of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). The paths are optimized to account for uncertainty/adversaries in the …

Coordination and control of multiple UAVs with timing constraints and loitering

M Alighanbari, Y Kuwata, JP How - Proceedings of the 2003 …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… To express the logical statement "on the way to", we introduce a large riumber M , and …
Bemporad and M. Morari, "Control of Systems Integrating Logic, Dynamics, and Constraints,…

Decentralized task assignment for unmanned aerial vehicles

M Alighanbari, JP How - … of the 44th IEEE Conference on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the problem of decentralized task assignment for a fleet of UAVs.
Centralized task assignment for a fleet of UAVs is often not practical due to communication limits…

Task assignment algorithms for teams of UAVs in dynamic environments

M Alighanbari - 2004 - dspace.mit.edu
… Based on this set of experiments, m = 1 and m = 2 are both good candidates in the sense that
m, shows that m = 2 generates almost an identical solution to the best solution while m = 1 …

Cooperative task assignment of unmanned aerial vehicles in adversarial environments

M Alighanbari, JP How - Proceedings of the 2005, American …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of risk in the environment and presents a new stochastic
formulation of the UAV task assignment problem. This formulation explicitly accounts for the …

Unbiased Kalman consensus algorithm

M Alighanbari, JP How - Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information …, 2008 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper investigates the consensus problem for a team of agents with inconsistent information,
which is a core component for many proposed distributed planning schemes. Kalman …

A robust approach to the UAV task assignment problem

M Alighanbari, JP How - … of Robust and Nonlinear Control: IFAC …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a new robust approach to the task assignment of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) operating in uncertain dynamic environments for which the optimization data, …

Robust decentralized task assignment for cooperative UAVs

M Alighanbari, J How - … Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, 2006 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper investigates the problem of decentralized task assignment for a fleet of
cooperative UAVs. It extends the analysis of a previously proposed algorithm to consider the …

Coordination and control experiments on a multi-vehicle testbed

E King, Y Kuwata, M Alighanbari… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces two unique testbeds that have recently been developed to demonstrate
the cooperative control of teams of UAVs. The first testbed uses eight rovers and four …

Robust planning for coupled cooperative UAV missions

LF Bertuccelli, M Alighanbari… - 2004 43rd IEEE …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new formulation for the UAV task assignment problem with uncertainty
in the environment. The problem is posed as a task assignment with uncertainty in the cost …