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This paper presents a control strategy for survivor searching in a dynamically changing flood zone using a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Assuming that there are multiple groups of the survivors, the positions which are time-varying and cannot be accurately located, the control strategy requires the UAVs to optimally cover possible locations of survivors in the flood zone. A robust adaptive controller has been proposed to implement the strategy, the feasibility of which is verified under simulations in the presence of time-varying uncertainties.
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This research was supported, in part, by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, the JST Strategic International Collaborative Research Program, Grant No. JPMJSC18E4.
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This work was presented in part at the joint symposium with the 15th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 2021 and the 4th International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics 2021 (Online, June 1–4, 2021).
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Asami, K., Bai, Y., Svinin, M. et al. Survivor searching in a dynamically changing flood zone by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. Artif Life Robotics 27, 292–299 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-022-00755-w
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