Platoon control design for unmanned surface vehicles subject to input delay

Intelligent Control for Unmanned Vehicles

The NIST robot vehicle, a HMMWV with sensors and computer controlled actuators, detects and avoids obstacles while it drives off road at speeds up to 35 km/h. During tests the vehicle drives through the back fields of NIST detecting large obstacles up to 50 m away. Obstacles are sensed using a 30¡x60¡ field of view laser range scanner. The planner computes smooth, obstacle free paths that follo...

Design of genetic algorithms for topology control of unmanned vehicles

We present genetic algorithms (GAs) as a decentralised topology control mechanism distributed among active running software agents to achieve a uniform spread of terrestrial unmanned vehicles (UVs) over an unknown geographical area. This problem becomes more challenging under the harsh and bandwidth limited conditions of military applications. Using only local neighbour information, a GA guides...

Developing Autonomy for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

A Review on Current Design of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)

The paper discusses the expanding technologies that have allowed the USVs to emerge widely in various of sector marine as well as the application areas where they offer valuable serve. The paper comparing from the previous concept design until the current design of USVs and their function and suitability. Copyright © 2015 Penerbit Akademia Baru All rights reserved.

Evolved Navigation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Whether evolutionary robotics (ER) controllers evolve in simulation or on real robots, realworld performance is the true test of an evolved controller. Controllers must overcome the noise inherent in real environments to operate robots efficiently and safely. To prevent a poorly performing controller from damaging a vehicle—susceptible vehicles include statically unstable walking robots, flying...