Towards robust on-line multi-robot coverage

N Hazon, F Mieli, GA Kaminka - Proceedings 2006 IEEE …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Area coverage is an important task for mobile robots, with many real-world applications. In
many cases, the coverage has to be completed without the use of a map or any a priori …

Redundancy, efficiency and robustness in multi-robot coverage

N Hazon, GA Kaminka - Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Area coverage is an important task for mobile robots, with many real-world applications.
Motivated by potential efficiency and robustness improvements, there is growing interest in …

Limited communication, multi-robot team based coverage

I Rekleitis, V Lee-Shue, AP New… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an algorithm for the complete coverage of free space by a team of
mobile robots. Our approach is based on a single robot coverage algorithm, which divides …

Cluster, allocate, cover: An efficient approach for multi-robot coverage

A Gautam, JK Murthy, G Kumar… - … on Systems, Man …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an algorithm for online multirobot coverage that proceeds with minimal
knowledge of the already explored region and the frontier cells. It creates clusters of frontier …

On redundancy, efficiency, and robustness in coverage for multiple robots

N Hazon, GA Kaminka - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2008 - Elsevier
Motivated by potential efficiency and robustness gains, there is growing interest in the use of
multiple robots for coverage. In coverage, robots visit every point in a target area, at least …

Distributed coverage with multi-robot system

CS Kong, NA Peng, I Rekleitis - Proceedings 2006 IEEE …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we proposed an improved algorithm for the multi-robot complete coverage
problem. Real world applications such as lawn mowing, chemical spill clean-up, and …

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 …

Robot coverage of terrain with non-uniform traversability

X Zheng, S Koenig - 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study how multiple robots can cover known terrain quickly. We extend Multi-
Robot Forest Coverage, a state-of-the-art multi-robot coverage algorithm, from terrain with …

Efficient multi-robot coverage of a known environment

N Karapetyan, K Benson, C McKinney… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the complete area coverage problem of a known environment by
multiple-robots. Complete area coverage is the problem of moving an end-effector over all …

An efficient algorithm for environmental coverage with multiple robots

L Xu, A Stentz - … IEEE International Conference on Robotics and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tasks such as street mapping and security surveillance seek a route that traverses a given
space to perform a function. These task functions may involve mapping the space for …