This thesis deals with the development of guidance laws for interceptors with seeker field-of-view (FOV) and impact angle constraints. Two classes of guidance problems, namely, field-of- view and impact angle constrained ...

With advancements in camera sensor technology, camera sensor networks are increasingly utilized for border surveillance. UAVs equipped with downward-facing cameras also serve as effective sensors, and their features, ...

This thesis addresses the problems of collision avoidance and coalition formation of multiple UAVs in high density traffic environments, proposes simple and efficient algorithms as solutions, and discusses their applications ...

The classical n-bugs problem has attracted considerable attention from researchers. This problem stems from the study of movement of a group of animals. In the context of multi- agent systems the problem has been modelled ...

A quadcopter manipulator system (QMS) is an aerial robot comprising a quadcopter with a three degree of freedom manipulator mounted at the bottom of the vehicle. An aerial robot can reach otherwise inaccessible ...

Load distribution problems in distributed computing networks have attracted much attention in the literature. A major objective in these studies is to distribute the processing load so as to minimize the time of processing ...

Multimodal function optimization generally focuses on algorithms to find either a local optimum or the global optimum while avoiding local optima. However, there is another class of optimization problems which have the ...

In this thesis the cubic spline guidance law and its variants are derived. A detailed analysis is carried out to find the initial conditions for successful interception. The results are applied to three dimensional ...

One of the major challenges in space technology is to achieve high resolution imaging of the intended area on demand to meet civilian and military applications. Spacecraft formation flying with coordinated control of smaller ...