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Malintha Fernando
dblp:274/5923
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Multi-agent systems · 61% Legged, aerial and field robots · 30% Motion planning and robot control · 9% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Legged, aerial and field robots
aerial robots |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Online Flocking Control of UAVs with Mean-Field Approximation · ICRA 2021 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems › collective behavior › swarm behavior › collective motion
flocking control |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Online Flocking Control of UAVs with Mean-Field Approximation · ICRA 2021 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems
swarm robotics |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Online Flocking Control of UAVs with Mean-Field Approximation · ICRA 2021 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
collision avoidance |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | Online Flocking Control of UAVs with Mean-Field Approximation · ICRA 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
mean-field approximation · 0.5markov random field · 0.5distributed control · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Online Flocking Control of UAVs with Mean-Field ApproximationabstractWe present a novel approach to the formation controlling of aerial robot swarms that demonstrates the flocking behavior. The proposed method stems from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) dynamics; thus, it prevents any unattainable control inputs from being produced and subsequently leads to feasible trajectories. By modeling the inter-agent relationships using a pairwise energy function, we show that interacting robot swarms constitute a Markov Random Field. Our algorithm builds on the Mean-Field Approximation and incorporates the collective behavioral rules: cohesion, separation, and velocity alignment. We follow a distributed control scheme and show that our method can control a swarm of UAVs to a formation and velocity consensus with real-time collision avoidance. We validate the proposed method with physical and high-fidelity simulation experiments. Malintha Fernando |
ICRA | 1 |