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Drone-Assisted Confined Space Inspection and Stockpile Volume Estimation (2021)
Journal Article

The accuracy of stockpile estimations is of immense criticality to process optimisation and overall financial decision making within manufacturing operations. Despite well-established correlations between inventory management and profitability, safe... Read More about Drone-Assisted Confined Space Inspection and Stockpile Volume Estimation.

Big data for human security: The case of COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 epidemic has changed the world dramatically since societies are changing their behaviour according to the new normal, which comes along with numerous challenges and uncertainties. These uncertainties have led to instabilities in several... Read More about Big data for human security: The case of COVID-19.

SDP-Based Robust Formation-Containment Coordination of Swarm Robotic Systems with Input Saturation (2021)
Journal Article

There are many potential applications of swarm robotic systems in real-world scenarios. In this paper, formation-containment controller design for single-integrator and double-integrator swarm robotic systems with input saturation is investigated. Th... Read More about SDP-Based Robust Formation-Containment Coordination of Swarm Robotic Systems with Input Saturation.

Bio-inspired artificial pheromone system for swarm robotics applications (2020)
Journal Article

Pheromones are chemical substances released into the environment by an individual animal, which elicit stereotyped behaviours widely found across the animal kingdom. Inspired by the effective use of pheromones in social insects, pheromonal communicat... Read More about Bio-inspired artificial pheromone system for swarm robotics applications.

Robust formation control for networked robotic systems using Negative Imaginary dynamics (2022)
Journal Article

This paper proposes a consensus-based formation tracking scheme for multi-robot systems utilizing the Negative Imaginary (NI) theory. The proposed scheme applies to a class of networked robotic systems that can be modelled as a group of single integr... Read More about Robust formation control for networked robotic systems using Negative Imaginary dynamics.

Formation Control for UAVs Using a Flux Guided Approach (2022)
Journal Article

Existing studies on formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have not considered encircling targets where an optimum coverage of the target is required at all times. Such coverage plays a critical role in many real-world applications such... Read More about Formation Control for UAVs Using a Flux Guided Approach.

Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case (2016)
Journal Article

In this paper, we present a new bio-inspired vision system embedded for micro-robots. The vision system takes inspiration from locusts in detecting fast approaching objects. Neurophysiological research suggested that locusts use a wide-field visual n... Read More about Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case.

The challenges posed by global broadacre crops in delivering smart agri-robotic solutions: A fundamental rethink is required (2019)
Journal Article

Threats to global food security from multiple sources, such as population growth, ageing farming populations, meat consumption trends, climate-change effects on abiotic and biotic stresses, the environmental impacts of agriculture are well publicised... Read More about The challenges posed by global broadacre crops in delivering smart agri-robotic solutions: A fundamental rethink is required.

Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Connected Vehicle Platoons: An Adaptive Leader-Following Approach (2020)
Journal Article

Automatic cruise control of a platoon of multiple connected vehicles in an automated highway system has drawn significant attention of the control practitioners over the past two decades due to its ability to reduce traffic congestion problems, impro... Read More about Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Connected Vehicle Platoons: An Adaptive Leader-Following Approach.

Finite-Time Bearing-Only Formation Tracking of Heterogeneous Mobile Robots With Collision Avoidance (2021)
Journal Article

This brief proposes a bearing-only collision-free formation coordination strategy for networked heterogeneous robots, where each robot only measures the relative bearings of its neighbors to achieve cooperation. Different from many existing studies t... Read More about Finite-Time Bearing-Only Formation Tracking of Heterogeneous Mobile Robots With Collision Avoidance.

A 3-DOF piezoelectric driven nanopositioner: Design, control and experiment (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper, a novel 3-degree-of-freedom (DOF) nanopositioner was investigated in order to position objects with nanometer scale accuracy. Nanopositioners are used in a variety of real-world applications, e.g. biomedical technology and nanoassembly... Read More about A 3-DOF piezoelectric driven nanopositioner: Design, control and experiment.

Bio-Inspired Collision Avoidance in Swarm Systems via Deep Reinforcement Learning (2022)
Journal Article

Autonomous vehicles have been highlighted as a major growth area for future transportation systems and the deployment of large numbers of these vehicles is expected when safety and legal challenges are overcome. To meet the necessary safety standards... Read More about Bio-Inspired Collision Avoidance in Swarm Systems via Deep Reinforcement Learning.

Investigation of cue-based aggregation in static and dynamic environments with a mobile robot swarm (2016)
Journal Article

Aggregation is one of the most fundamental behaviors and has been studied in swarm robotic researches for more than two decades. Studies in biology have revealed that the environment is a preeminent factor, especially in cue-based aggregation. This c... Read More about Investigation of cue-based aggregation in static and dynamic environments with a mobile robot swarm.

Advanced motions for hexapods (2019)
Journal Article

Advanced motions, which utilize footholds on walls, offer considerably more opportunities for hexapods in accessing confined environment. However, there has been no research on the practical application of such motions on a hexapod. These motions are... Read More about Advanced motions for hexapods.

Voronoi-Based Multi-Robot Autonomous Exploration in Unknown Environments via Deep Reinforcement Learning (2020)
Journal Article

Autonomous exploration is an important application of multi-vehicle systems, where a team of networked robots are coordinated to explore an unknown environment collaboratively. This technique has earned significant research interest due to its useful... Read More about Voronoi-Based Multi-Robot Autonomous Exploration in Unknown Environments via Deep Reinforcement Learning.

Swarm Intelligence and cyber-physical systems: Concepts, challenges and future trends (2020)
Journal Article

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a popular multi-agent framework that has been originally inspired by swarm behaviors observed in natural systems, such as ant and bee colonies. In a system designed after swarm intelligence, each agent acts autonomously, re... Read More about Swarm Intelligence and cyber-physical systems: Concepts, challenges and future trends.

A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework for Multirobot Systems (2021)
Journal Article

Cooperative control of multirobot systems (MRSs) has earned significant research interest over the past two decades due to its potential applications in multidisciplinary engineering problems. In contrast to a single specialized robot, the MRS can be... Read More about A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework for Multirobot Systems.

A Minimally Invasive Approach Towards “Ecosystem Hacking” With Honeybees (2022)
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Honey bees live in colonies of thousands of individuals, that not only need to collaborate with each other but also to interact intensively with their ecosystem. A small group of robots operating in a honey bee colony and interacting with the queen b... Read More about A Minimally Invasive Approach Towards “Ecosystem Hacking” With Honeybees.

Cue-based aggregation with a mobile robot swarm: a novel fuzzy-based method (2014)
Journal Article

Aggregation in swarm robotics is referred to as the gathering of spatially distributed robots into a single aggregate. Aggregation can be classified as cue-based or self-organized. In cue-based aggregation, there is a cue in the environment that poin... Read More about Cue-based aggregation with a mobile robot swarm: a novel fuzzy-based method.

Perpetual Robot Swarm: Long-Term Autonomy of Mobile Robots Using On-the-fly Inductive Charging (2017)
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Swarm robotics studies the intelligent collective behaviour emerging from long-term interactions of large number of simple robots. However, maintaining a large number of robots operational for long time periods requires significant battery capacity,... Read More about Perpetual Robot Swarm: Long-Term Autonomy of Mobile Robots Using On-the-fly Inductive Charging.