International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics: Volume 10 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Delin Luo, Feng Lin

Agent model for multi-UAV control via protocol designs

Sunan Huang, Swee Huat Rodney Teo, Wenqi Liu, Siarhei Michailovich Dymkou

Cooperative control of a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an important area of research. The purpose of this paper is to explore multi-UAV control in the framework of…

Formulating layered adjustable autonomy for unmanned aerial vehicles

Salama A. Mostafa, Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad, Aida Mustapha, Mazin Abed Mohammed

The purpose of this paper is to propose a layered adjustable autonomy (LAA) as a dynamically adjustable autonomy model for a multi-agent system. It is mainly used to efficiently…

Fuzzy logic algorithm of hovering control for the quadrotor unmanned aerial system

Lie Yu, Jia Chen, Yukang Tian, Yunzhou Sun, Lei Ding

The purpose of this paper is to present a control strategy which uses two independent PID controllers to realize the hovering control for unmanned aerial systems (UASs). In…

Station-keeping control for a stratosphere airship via wind speed prediction approach

Jihui Qiu, Shaoping Shen, Zhibin Li

The purpose of this paper is to improve the control precision of the station-keeping control for a stratosphere airship through the feedforward-feedback PID controller which is…

Time-varying formation finite-time tracking control for multi-UAV systems under jointly connected topologies

Tianyi Xiong, Zhiqiang Pu, Jianqiang Yi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the time-varying finite-time formation tracking control problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle systems under switching…

TML: a language to specify aerial robotic missions for the framework Aerostack

Martin Molina, Ramon A. Suarez-Fernandez, Carlos Sampedro, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Pascual Campoy

The purpose of this paper is to describe the specification language TML for adaptive mission plans that the authors designed and implemented for the open-source framework…

The anti-periodic oscillations of shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks with time-varying delays and continuously distributed delays

Changjin Xu, Peiluan Li

The purpose of this paper is to study the existence and exponential stability of anti-periodic solutions of a class of shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks (SICNNs) with…

Motion control design for unmanned ground vehicle in dynamic environment using intelligent controller

Auday Almayyahi, Weiji Wang, Alaa Adnan Hussein, Phil Birch

The motion control of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) is a challenge in the industry of automation. The purpose of this paper is to propose a fuzzy inference system (FIS) based on…