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Quadrotor teams · Filtering nominal trajectories with certificates

CBF-based certificates modify differential-flatness trajectories to avoid collisions while preserving nominal plans where possible. Experiments with five quadrotors evaluate compatibility with existing planning and flight control.

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Original title
Safe certificate-based maneuvers for teams of quadrotors using differential flatness
Publisher
IEEE
Authors
Li Wang, Aaron D. Ames, Magnus Egerstedt
DOI
10.1109/icra.2017.7989375
Publication date
2017-05
Source language
en
Edition
2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); 2017-05; DOI 10.1109/icra.2017.7989375
Access
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Publication status
Published

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Source overview

CBF-based certificates modify differential-flatness trajectories to avoid collisions while preserving nominal plans where possible. Experiments with five quadrotors evaluate compatibility with existing planning and flight control.

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Institutional abstract and bibliography checked. Dynamics, tracking and separation assumptions require separate assessment in deployment.

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Safe certificate-based maneuvers for teams of quadrotors using differential flatness ↗

IEEE · 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); 2017-05; DOI 10.1109/icra.2017.7989375

ICRA2017 abstract https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/3zecw-km009 and https://ames.caltech.edu/wang2017safe.pdf.