Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu

Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12573/395

Browse

Filters

2020 - 20234

Settings

Author: search.filters.author.Guler, SametSubject: search.filters.subject.Multi-Robot Systems

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 4 of 4
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 45
    Citation - Scopus: 52
    Peer-to-Peer Relative Localization of Aerial Robots With Ultrawideband Sensors
    (IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2021-09) Guler, Samet; Abdelkader, Mohamed; Shamma, Jeff S.
    Robots in swarms take advantage of localization infrastructure, such as a motion capture system or global positioning system (GPS) sensors to obtain their global position, which can then be communicated to other robots for swarm coordination. However, the availability of localization infrastructure needs not to be guaranteed, e.g., in GPS-denied environments. Likewise, the communication overhead associated with broadcasting locations may be undesirable. For reliable and versatile operation in a swarm, robots must sense each other and interact locally. Motivated by this requirement, we propose an onboard relative localization framework for multirobot systems. The setup consists of an anchor robot with three onboard ultrawideband (UWB) sensors and a tag robot with a single onboard UWB sensor. The anchor robot utilizes the three UWB sensors to estimate the tag robot's location by using its onboard sensing and computational capabilities solely, without explicit interrobot communication. Because the anchor UWB sensors lack the physical separation that is typical in fixed UWB localization systems, we introduce filtering methods to improve the estimation of the tag's location. In particular, we utilize a mixture Monte Carlo localization (MCL) approach to capture maneuvers of the tag robot with acceptable precision. We validate the effectiveness of our algorithm with simulations as well as indoor and outdoor field experiments on a two-drone setup. The proposed mixture MCL algorithm yields highly accurate estimates for various speed profiles of the tag robot and demonstrates superior performance over the standard particle filter and the extended Kalman filter.
  • Conference Object
    Citation - WoS: 1
    Citation - Scopus: 1
    Peer-to-Peer Localization via On-Board Sensing for Aerial Flocking
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020-06) Omar Rajab, Fat Hy; Guler, Samet; Shamma, Jeff S.; Rajab, Fat-Hy Omar
    The performance of mobile multi-robot systems dramatically depends on the mutual awareness of individual robots, particularly the positions of other robots. GPS and motion capture cameras are commonly used to acquire and ultimately communicate positions of robots. Such sensing schemes depend on infrastructure and restrict the capabilities of a multi-robot system, e.g., the robots cannot operate in both indoor and outdoor environments. Conversely, peer-to-peer localization algorithms can be used to free the robots from such infrastructures. In such systems, robots use on-board sensing to infer the positions of nearby robots. In this approach, it is essential to have a model of the motion of other robots. We introduce a flocking localization scheme that takes into account motion behavior exhibited by the other robots. The proposed scheme depends only on the robots' on-board sensors and computational capabilities and yields a more accurate localization solution than the peer-to-peer localization algorithms that do not take into account the flocking behavior. We verify the performance of our scheme in simulations and demonstrate experiments on two unmanned aerial vehicles. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
  • Book Part
    Citation - Scopus: 3
    Deep Learning Based Formation Control of Drones
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) Kabore, Kader Monhamady; Guler, Samet
    Robot swarms can accomplish demanding missions fast, efficiently, and accurately. For a robust operation, robot swarms need to be equipped with reliable localization algorithms. Usually, the global positioning system (GPS) and motion capture cameras are employed to provide robot swarms with absolute position data with high precision. However, such infrastructures make the robots dependent on certain areas and hence reduce robustness. Thus, robots should have onboard localization capabilities to demonstrate a swarm behavior in challenging scenarios such as GPS-denied environments. Motivated by the need for a reliable onboard localization framework for robot swarms, we present a distance and vision-based localization algorithm integrated into a distributed formation control framework for three-drone systems. The proposed approach is established upon the bearing angles and the relative distances between the pairs of drones in a cyclic formation where each drone follows its coleader. We equip each drone with a monocular camera sensor and derive the bearing angle between a drone and its coleader with the recently developed deep learning algorithms. The onboard measurements are then relayed back to the formation control algorithm in which every drone computes its control action in its own frame based on its neighbors only, forming a completely distributed architecture. The proposed approach enables three-drone systems to perform in coordination indepen- dent of any external infrastructure. We validate the performance of our approach in a realistic simulation environment. © 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 8
    A Distributed Relative Localization Approach for Air-Ground Robot Formations With Onboard Sensing
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2023-06) Guler, Samet; Yildirim, Isa E.
    In a multi-robot system, diversity in the sensing and motion models of robotic entities can improve the overall performance. While such heterogeneous systems offer peculiar advantages in terms of robustness and resiliency, positioning and situational awareness of individual robots in these systems remain a challenge. In this paper, the problem of relative localization in a system composed of a drone and multiple unmanned ground vehicles which are desired to move in formation is addressed. By utilizing a leader-follower formation graph, a distance-based relative localization algorithm based on an extended Kalman filter is proposed for online estimation of the relative positions among the ground vehicles. The necessary conditions to satisfy the observability of the unmeasured states are provided. In the proposed framework, the robots exchange a limited amount of information only and do not rely on an external infrastructure, GPS, or magnetometer. Furthermore, an application of the proposed localization framework integrated to custom formation control schemes is proposed. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated through a set of simulation and real life experiments, and its advantages and limitations are discussed by means of a comparative study.