The SIRCCOM project (Solitonic-Inspired Resilient Coordination of Co-Movement), developed at PUC-Rio and funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), investigates distributed control theories by applying concepts from particle physics to network resilience. This academic research utilizes the mathematics of solitons—self-reinforcing physical waves that maintain their shape during propagation—as a conceptual framework to develop coordination algorithms for dynamic agent graphs. By adapting these wave propagation principles, the project aims to address the scalability, fission, and fusion challenges that often limit classical flocking heuristics in large-scale UAV swarms. Validated primarily through computational simulations, this approach seeks to establish a structured, low-latency mathematical framework for collective autonomous movement, with direct applications in civilian scenarios such as Search and Rescue operations.
Publications:
10 . Journal Drones and Autonomous Vehicles : Camera View Selection for Bearing-Only Geolocation of Stationary Targets using Multi-UAV Swarms with GPS Bias – to appear – Aria et al.
9. Journal of Applied AI – Comparing Genetic-Tuned Fuzzy and Analytical Task Allocation for UAV collaborative surveillance – to appear – Wenis et al.
8. IEEE Access: Rescue from the Air: Real-Time Data Fusion and Distributed Path Planning for Multi-UAV SAR Applications – DOI to appear – Cavalcanti et al.
7. Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems: Adaptive Asynchronous Aggregation for UAV-Assisted Federated Learning under Unreliable IoT Communications – DOI to appear – Rigon et al.
6. Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems: Deep Learning-Based Estimation of UAV-Swarm Communication Constraints – DOI to apper – Lucchiese et al.
5. Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems: Simulating and Analyzing Coordination Approaches among Unmanned Air and Unmanned Ground Vehicles for Search And Rescue Scenarios – DOI to appear – Reimer et al.
4. Wireless Days 2025: Evaluating Formation Metrics in Autonomous UAV Swarms Using Raft under Communication Constraints – DOI to apper – Lucchiese et al.
3. Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems: Multi-UAV Opportunistic Data Collection for Hybrid Ground-Air Wireless Mesh Networks – DOI to appear – Paulon et al.
2. LA Fusion 2025: Collective Terrain Surveillance through Occasional Data Exchange within a Swarm of UAVs – DOI to appear – Wenis et al
2. LA Fusion 2025: Leader-Follower Sizing in Heterogeneous UAV Swarms for SAR: Latency-Coverage Trade-Offs via Discrete-Event Simulation – DOI to appear – Sebastian et al.
1. Project Propostal
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