In this paper a framework for simulation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), oriented to rotary wings aerial vehicles, is presented. It allows UAVs simulation for stand-alone agent or multi-agent exchanging data in cooperative scenarios. The framework, based on modularity and stratification in different specialized layers, allows an easy switching from simulated to real environments, thus reduc...

Future conflicts may involve composite striker packages composed of manned and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) supervised by mission controllers. Since situation awareness (SA) contributes to and is a crucial part of mission success, significant effort is now being placed on developing new technologies that have the potential of increasing SA for the mission controller. This paper describes the de...

This paper addresses the coordinated control problem of underactuated thrustpropelled vehicles in the presence of irregular communication delays under a directed communication graph topology. We propose a distributed control algorithm that drives the vehicles to a prescribed formation provided that the communication graph contains a spanning tree. Using the multi-dimensional small-gain approach...

This paper represents the development of a comprehensive cooperative exploration frame work in which each individual vehicle has the ability to explore an unknown environment by itself and also by cooperative behaviour in a team of several vehicles that consist of ground and air vehicles. Our approach to exploration strategy focuses on solving optimal assignment problem amongst the team by usin...

In this paper we have extended the fuzzy multi objective optimization problem considered by Gupta et al [8] by incorporating another attribute of minimization of number of vehicles. Reducing the number of vehicles produces substantial savings in the global transportation costs though some times this goal is achieved with a compromise of other goal. The problem is solved by enhancing the genetic...

Hybrid vehicles and energy management is now a fertile area of research and development. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the tools development for energy management and collaborative decision-making in hybrid electrical vehicles. We propose a multi-agent system for intelligent energy management. To test the designed and developed system, we have used a vehicle powered by a hydrogen fu...

We use a computer-based cellular automaton to study two-component flow, mimicking (fast) passenger and (slow) cargo vehicles, on a circular unidirectional two-lane highway without on-ramps and exits. The global flow rates for different overall densities and mixing ratios between fast and slow cars are determined. We study two main scenarios: two-component traffic without passing restriction (un...

This paper studies distributed control of multi-vehicle formations with angle constraints using bearingonlymeasurements. It is assumed that each vehicle can onlymeasure the local bearings of their neighbors and there are no wireless communications among the vehicles. The desired formation is a cyclic one, whose underlying information flow is described by an undirected cycle graph. We propose a ...

We plan to build a testbed consisting of 8-10 mobile vehicles with embedded computing and communications capability for use in testing new approaches for command and control across dynamic networks. The proposed system will allow testing of a variety of communications-related technologies that are relevant to future DoD systems, including distributed command and control algorithms, dynamically ...

All rights reserved by www.ijsrd.com 808 Clustering of Vehicles by Performance Characteristics for Indian MultiLane Highways Arichandran Ramachandran Department of Civil Engineering Institute of Technology, University of Gondar, Post Box No. 196, Gondar, Ethiopia Abstract— Vehicle type plays an important role in the accident occurrence, lane changing process and capacity analysis. In heterogene...