This paper presents experiments for embedded cooperative distributed model predictive control applied to a team of hovercraft floating on an air hockey table. The hovercraft collectively solve a centralized optimal control problem in each sampling step via a stabilizing decentralized real-time iteration scheme using the alternating direction method of multipliers. The efficient implementation does not require a central coordinator, executes onboard the hovercraft, and facilitates sampling intervals in the millisecond range. The formation control experiments showcase the flexibility of the approach on scenarios with point-to-point transitions, trajectory tracking, collision avoidance, and moving obstacles.

Road information extraction based purely on remote sensing can be affected by occlusions of the road surface caused by trees, shadows, and buildings. We propose a multimodal fusion method that addresses road extraction and road width estimation by combining aerial imagery, monocular images taken at ground level (street-level), and geospatial data (Open-StreetMap). The method combines semantic segmentation through convolutional neural networks, Voronoi diagram processing, and graph matching.