Dynamic cell structure learns perfectly topology preserving map
Neural Computation
Transitioning multiagent technology to UAV applications
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Networking Issues for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Scalable ad-hoc routing: design and implementation
Scalable ad-hoc routing: design and implementation
Cooperative control of UAVs for localization of intermittently emitting mobile targets
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics - Special issue on cybernetics and cognitive informatics
Field experimentation of cots-based UAV networking
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
Bounded decentralised coordination over multiple objectives
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Enhancing the broadcast process in mobile ad hoc networks using community knowledge
Proceedings of the first ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications
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In this paper, we present a mechanism to fly a swarm of UAVs with the aim of establishing a wireless backbone over a pre-specified area. The backbone is aimed at connecting intermittent wireless-signal-emitting mobile ground stations (GSs), comprising rescue teams and survivors. To this end, we present a decentralized behavior-based cooperative control architecture to search for unknown GSs and relay packets from one GS to another. A delay tolerant network protocol implementation is assumed on the agents but maintained transparent to the GSs. The conditions for agent state transition are adapted to maximize a measured performance score. A novel belief exchange mechanism for cooperation is designed to utilize low bandwidth through state estimation by a Dynamic Cell Structure. Extensive simulations are performed to prove the effectiveness of the proposed solution via measured performance metrics like average latency and visit frequency.