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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,542 Views
26 Pages

30 January 2025

Utilizing fully distributed intelligent control algorithms has enabled the gradual adoption of the multiple unmanned aerial vehicles system for executing Target Tracking and Encirclement missions in industrial and civil applications. Restricted by th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Assisted Control Strategies and Their Applications to the Stabilization, Guidance and Navigation of Drones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,377 Views
20 Pages

Image-Based Visual Servoing for Quadrotor Formation Encirclement and Tracking of Unknown Targets

  • Hanyu Guo,
  • Tao Song,
  • Jianchuan Ye,
  • Yusra Abdulrahman and ,
  • Xuechen Gu,
  • Tao Jiang and
  • Yihao Dong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 January 2026

A target state estimation method based on multiple quadrotors is proposed for unknown maneuvering targets, and a distributed formation control method Image-Based Visual Servoing (IBVS) is also proposed to achieve encirclement tracking of unknown mane...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,994 Views
23 Pages

Fixed-Time Target Tracking and Encirclement Control for Multi-UAVs with Bearing-Only Measurements

  • Zican Zhou,
  • Jiangping Hu,
  • Xuesong Wu,
  • Shangzhi Liao and
  • Jiao Yuan

15 January 2026

This paper introduces a novel fixed-time control framework for simultaneous target tracking and circumnavigation in a multi-UAV system, using only bearing measurements. The proposed approach enables the UAV swarm to rapidly form and maintain a rigid...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence in Drones (AID))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,570 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2026

In recent years, multi-UAV systems have demonstrated broad applications in both security and civilian domains, where cooperative encirclement has emerged as a key research focus. However, existing work predominantly addresses single-target scenarios...

(This article belongs to the Collection Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Drone Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
350 Views
25 Pages

Three-Dimensional Prescribed-Time Hierarchical Cooperative Guidance Law for Head-On Interception

  • Shengli Xu,
  • Kechen Xiang,
  • Hongyang Xu,
  • Yonghua Fan and
  • Haoyu Cheng

This paper proposes a three-dimensional prescribed-time hierarchical cooperative guidance law (3-D PTHCGL) for rapid and reliable head-on encirclement in cooperative interception of high-speed targets under incomplete directed communication topology,...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,840 Views
19 Pages

25 August 2024

This paper addresses the problem of target tracking and circumnavigation control for a bearing-only multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system. First, using the bearing measurements, an adaptive algorithm in the form of a Proportional Integral (PI) c...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,352 Views
17 Pages

Cooperative Target Enclosing and Tracking Control with Obstacles Avoidance for Multiple Nonholonomic Mobile Robots

  • Xinghua Li,
  • Xiaoping Liu,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Song Han and ,
  • Congling Shi and
  • Honglei Che
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 March 2022

This paper investigates the cooperative control problem for a group of autonomous nonholonomic mobile robots, in which the robots are required to collaboratively enclose and track a stationary or moving target in a circular formation. In order to sol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,187 Views
34 Pages

20 October 2025

Fixed-time coordination is critical for networked unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems to accomplish time-sensitive missions such as rapid target encirclement, cooperative search, and emergency response. However, dynamic topology variations, caused...

  • Article
  • Open Access
653 Views
23 Pages

19 June 2026

With the increasing complexity of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) missions in complex obstacle environments, cooperative hunting of maneuvering ground targets by UAV swarms has become an important problem for multi-agent autonomous decision-making. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Agent Driven Sensing, Data Acquisition, and Signal Processing Methods in Autonomous Driving)