A special issue of International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems
Interest in multi-vehicle formation and their control has increased because of the many possible applications in military as well as civil fields. The study of robot formation control, inspired from swarm evolution in nature, began from the industry and military worlds with the idea of using multiple small vehicles instead of one big one. Teams of inexpensive robots, performing cooperative tasks, may prove to be more cost and energy effective than a single one. They are, in addition, capable of achieving a mission more efficiently. Using formations of robots includes other advantages such as increased feasibility, accuracy, robustness, flexibility, and probability of success.
Many works have focused on the subject, based on different approaches and using different strategies, such as the virtual structure, the behavioural approach, the leader following approach, swarm intelligence, and so on. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages, and is used in order to achieve a specific goal.
This special issue aims to showcase recent advances in modelling, parameter identification, and minimisation of multi-vehicle formation, self-organised task allocation strategies for multi-vehicle systems, and formation control.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Multi-vehicle coordination, cooperation and collaboration
- Kinematics and dynamics modelling of vehicles formation
- Path planning and task allocation of robots formation
- Stabilisation and tracking control of robots formation
- Obstacles avoidance and formation control
- Self-organisation of vehicle groups
- Biologically inspired of multi-robot behaviour
- Multi-agents system and robots formation
- Aerial and/or terrestrial group of vehicles in coordination
- Swarms of robots
Submission of full paper before: 30 June, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 30 September, 2009
Final paper due: 30 November, 2009
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