@inproceedings{778629ef447547f183b19ef339c6f7f0,
title = "Vision-based autonomous flocking of UAVs in unknown forest environment",
abstract = "This paper studies tandem flocking of a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with limited range sensors exploring an obstacle-rich GPS-denied environment such as a forest or urban canyon. There is no communication between UAVs and the follower can only estimate its leader's relative position by its on-board camera. A vision-based leader-follower flocking strategy is proposed to achieve this kind of flocking in unknown cluttered environments. The leader UAV explores its way to reach a given goal position and the follower UAV follows its corresponding leader UAV via on-board camera and avoid obstacles at the same time. The simulation of a team of six UAVs demonstrates the effectiveness of our proposed flocking strategy in a forest environment.",
author = "Fang Liao and Jianliang Wang and Rodney Teo and Yuchao Hu and Shupeng Lai and Jinqiang Cui and Feng Lin",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 12th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2016 ; Conference date: 01-06-2016 Through 03-06-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1109/ICCA.2016.7505391",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "892--897",
booktitle = "12th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2016",
address = "United States",
}