Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control

The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control, a fleet of quadrotor helicopters, has been developed as a testbed for novel algorithms that enable autonomous operation of aerial vehicles. The testbed has been used to validate multiple algorithms such as reactive collision avoidance, collision avoidance through Nash Bargaining, path planning, cooperative search and aggressive maneuvering. This article briefly describes the algorithms presented and provides references for a more in-depth formulation, and the accompanying movie shows the demonstration of the algorithms on the testbed.

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