Md Ali Azam

UAV Formation Shape Control via Decentralized Markov Decision Processes

  • Md Ali Azam
  • Hans D Mittelmann
  • Shankarachary Ragi
    • Categories Applications - Science and Engineering

    In this paper, we present a decentralized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm formation control approach based on a decision theoretic approach. Specifically, we pose the UAV swarm motion control problem as a decentralized Markov decision process (Dec-MDP). Here, the goal is to drive the UAV swarm from an initial geographical region to another geographical region … Read more

    Competing Objective Optimization in Networked Swarm Systems

  • Md Ali Azam
  • Shawon Dey
  • Hans D Mittelmann
  • Shankarachary Ragi
    • Categories Applications - Science and Engineering Tags , , ,

    In this paper, we develop a decentralized collaborative sensing algorithm where the sensors are located on-board autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. We develop this algorithm in the context of a target tracking application, where the objective is to maximize the tracking performance measured by the meansquared error between the target state estimate and the ground truth. … Read more