Airlie Chapman

Regions of Exponential Convergence for a Coverage Controller

J Kennedy, PM Dower, A Chapman

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Coverage controllers provide various capabilities for multi-agent networks with respect to spatial distribution and sensing. Altho..

Individual and Team Trust Preferences for Robotic Swarm Behaviors

EM Vella, DA Williams, A Chapman, C Manzie

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Trust between humans and multi-agent robotic swarms may be analyzed using human preferences. These preferences are expressed by an..

Clock Rigidity and Joint Position-Clock Estimation in Ultra-Wideband Sensor Networks

R Wen, E Schoof, A Chapman

Journal article  |  2022  |  IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

Joint position and clock estimation is crucial in many wireless sensor network applications, especially in distance-based estimati..

The impact of graph symmetry on the number of driver nodes in complex networks

Hossein Parastvand, Airlie Chapman, Octavian Bass, Stefan Lachowicz

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE-ENGINEERING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

This study investigates on a strong correlation between complex network (CN) controllability (characterized by the number of requi..

Graph automorphic approaches to the robustness of complex networks

Hossein Parastvand, Airlie Chapman, Octavian Bass, Stefan Lachowicz

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

Leveraging on graph automorphic properties of complex networks (CNs), this study investigates three robustness aspects of CNs incl..

Estimation for Ultra-Wideband Sensor Networks: A Rigidity Perspective

R Wen, E Schoof, A Chapman

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  2021 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference, ANZCC 2021

This paper studies the clock parameter estimation and joint position and clock parameter estimation of ultra-wideband (UWB) sensor..

Exponential Convergence in Voronoi-based Coverage Control

J Kennedy, PM Dower, A Chapman

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  2021 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference, ANZCC 2021

Controllers for distributing mobile agents to cover a desired region have become popular in the motion-coordination literature, in..

Placement and Sizing of EV Charging Stations According to Centrality of the Underlying Network

H Parastvand, O Bass, MAS Masoum, Z Moghaddam, S Lachowicz, A Chapman

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  2020 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing, IETC 2020

EV placement and sizing are the subject of ever increasing studies in the last decade mostly relying on optimization approaches. T..

A Graph Automorphic Approach for Placement and Sizing of Charging Stations in EV Network Considering Traffic

Hossein Parastvand, Valeh Moghaddam, Octavian Bass, Mohammad AS Masoum, Airlie Chapman, Stefan Lachowicz

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

This paper proposes a novel graph-based approach with automorphic grouping for the modelling, synthesis, and analysis of electric ..

A distributed algorithm for UAV-based communication networks using constrained extremism seeking

Chwen-Kai Liao, Chris Manzie, Airlie Chapman

Journal article  |  2020  |  IFAC PAPERSONLINE

Unmanned autonomous vehicles offer a solution to maintaining adaptive multi-hop communication paths when fixed infrastructure is n..