Constructing spanning trees for efficient multi-robot coverage

N Agmon, N Hazon, GA Kaminka - Proceedings 2006 IEEE …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses the problem of building efficient coverage paths for a team of robots.
An efficient multirobot coverage algorithm should result in a coverage path for every robot …

Towards sensor based coverage with robot teams

D Latimer, S Srinivasa, V Lee-Shue… - … on Robotics and …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce an algorithm to cover an unknown space with a homogeneous team of circular
mobile robots. Our approach is based on a single robot coverage algorithm, a …

Multirobot coverage search in three dimensions

C Dornhege, A Kleiner, A Hertle… - Journal of Field …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Searching for objects and observing parts of a known environment efficiently is a
fundamental problem in many real‐world robotic applications, eg, household robots …

BSA-CM: A multi-robot coverage algorithm

E Gonzalez, E Gerlein - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the development of a multi-robot platform which performs a coverage
task based in a multiagent approach. Characteristics and requirements looking for …

Multirobot forest coverage for weighted and unweighted terrain

X Zheng, S Koenig, D Kempe… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main applications of mobile robots is coverage: visiting each location in known
terrain. Coverage is crucial for lawn mowing, cleaning, harvesting, search-and-rescue …

Distributed coverage with mobile robots on a graph: locational optimization and equal-mass partitioning

S Yun, D Rus - Robotica, 2014 - cambridge.org
This paper presents decentralized algorithms for coverage with mobile robots on a graph.
Coverage is an important capability of multi-robot systems engaged in a number of different …

Multi-robot coverage: A bee pheromone signalling approach

I Caliskanelli, B Broecker, K Tuyls - … , ALIA 2014, Bangor, UK, November 5 …, 2015 - Springer
In this paper we propose BeePCo, a multi-robot coverage approach based on honey bee
colony behaviour. Specifically, we propose a honey bee inspired pheromone signalling …

Dec-PPCPP: A decentralized predator–prey-based approach to adaptive coverage path planning amid moving obstacles

M Hassan, D Mustafic, D Liu - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enabling multiple robots to collaboratively per-form coverage path planning on complex
surfaces embedded in R^3 in the presence of moving obstacles is a challenging problem …

A planning framework for persistent, multi-uav coverage with global deconfliction

T Kusnur, S Mukherjee, DM Saxena, T Fukami… - Field and Service …, 2021 - Springer
Planning for multi-robot coverage seeks to determine collision-free paths for a fleet of robots,
enabling them to collectively observe points of interest in an environment. Persistent …

Time‐sensitive coverage control for non‐holonomic and heterogeneous robots: An extremum seeking framework and application

L Zhang, J Deng, K Zhou, T Yu… - IET Control Theory & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This work addresses a time‐sensitive coverage control problem for multiple non‐holonomic
mobile robots. The coverage objective is evaluated by the total arrivial time of robots …