Autonomous driving is one of the most interesting fields of research, with a number of important applications, like agricultural, military and, most significantly, safety. This paper addresses the problem of designing a general purpose path planner and its associated low level control for autonomous vehicles operating in unknown environments. Different kinds of inputs, like the results of obsta...

Autonomous control has been studied in detail in the recent years. Control algorithms have been developed along with strategical and technical solutions. Still there is lack of broad applications of autonomous control in industry, which impedes a comprehensive evaluation of autonomous control algorithms. The presented simulation study applies multiple control algorithms within a simulation mode...

The use of autonomous robots for humanitarian demining tasks is a promising solution. Among the different types of autonomous robots, walking robots exhibit significant advantages to negotiate uneven and unstructured terrain. However, the complete autonomous control of walking robots is still challenging. In this work, a hybrid reactive/deliberative control architecture is proposed for the auto...

with the continuous development of the industrialization process, the countries all over the world gradually appeared lack of agricultural labor force and aging phenomenon, which was especially prominent in developed countries. however the agricultural robot with high operating efficiency, high qualities of work will play an increasingly important role in future agricultural production. robot n...

We study minimal time strategies for the treatment of pollution of large volumes, such as lakes or natural reservoirs, with the help of an autonomous bioreactor. The control consists in feeding the bioreactor from the resource, the clean output returning to the resource with the same flow rate. We first characterize the optimal policies among constant and feedback controls, under the assumption...

In case of engine failure, skilled pilots can save a helicopter from crashing by executing an emergency procedure known as autorotation. In autorotation, rather than relying on the engine to drive the main rotor, the pilot has to control the helicopter such that potential energy from altitude is transferred to rotor speed. In fact, maintaining a sufficiently high rotor speed is critical to reta...

Bejczy distinguishes two basic approaches to the effect of combining autonomous and teleoperated control ? J In traded mode. the control may switch from fully autonomous control to full teleoperation In shared mode. certain degrees of freedom arp allocated to the autonomous controller and the others to the teleoperated control The concept of supervisory control, as exemplified by the work of Sh...

Decentralized control strategies are popular candidates in microgrids control because of their reliability and performance. Conventionally, droop control (as a main decentralized strategy) is been utilized in order to prevent permanent droop of voltage and frequency after change in loads and also to share generated power between distributed generation units. In this paper, a new droop control s...