no code implementations • 15 Apr 2024 • Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
In the rapidly changing environments of disaster response, planning and decision-making for autonomous agents involve complex and interdependent choices.
no code implementations • 15 Apr 2024 • Savvas Papaioannou, Christian Vitale, Panayiotis Kolios, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
The second-stage fault-tolerant controller then aims to follow this reference plan, even in the presence of erroneous control inputs caused by non-Gaussian disturbances.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Christos Laoudias, Panayiotis Kolios, Theocharis Theocharides, Christos G. Panayiotou
This work considers the problem of passively monitoring multiple moving targets with a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) agent equipped with a direction-finding radar.
no code implementations • 22 May 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Theocharis Theocharides, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
This work proposes an integrated guidance and gimbal control coverage path planning (CPP) approach, in which the mobility and gimbal inputs of an autonomous UAV agent are jointly controlled and optimized to achieve full coverage of a given object of interest, according to a specified set of optimality criteria.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Theocharis Theocharides, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
In this work, a novel distributed search-planning framework is proposed, where a dynamically varying team of autonomous agents cooperate in order to search multiple objects of interest in three-dimension (3-D).
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Georgios Ellinas
This work proposes a novel distributed control framework in which a team of pursuer agents equipped with a radio jamming device cooperate in order to track and radio-jam a rogue target in 3D space, with the ultimate purpose of disrupting its communication and navigation circuitry.
no code implementations • 21 Feb 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Theocharis Theocharides, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
In this work a robust and scalable cooperative multi-agent searching and tracking framework is proposed.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni
We have conducted extensive real-world experiments in a construction site showing significant accuracy improvement via cross-modality training and the use of social forces.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Theocharis Theocharides, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
In this paper, we investigate the problem of joint searching and tracking of multiple mobile targets by a group of mobile agents.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Hongkai Wen, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni
In this paper, we propose a novel positioning system, RAVEL (Radio And Vision Enhanced Localization), which fuses anonymous visual detections captured by widely available camera infrastructure, with radio readings (e. g. WiFi radio data).
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Theocharis Theocharides, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
In this paper we are interested in the task of searching and tracking multiple moving targets in a bounded surveillance area with a group of autonomous mobile agents.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2023 • Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios, Theocharis Theocharides, Christos G. Panayiotou, Marios M. Polycarpou
Based on this, we develop decentralized cooperative look-ahead strategies for efficient searching and tracking of an unknown number of targets inside a bounded surveillance area.