Dynamic frontier-led swarming: Multi-robot repeated coverage in dynamic environments

VP Tran, MA Garratt, K Kasmarik… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A common assumption of coverage path planning research is a static environment. Such
environments require only a single visit to each area to achieve coverage. However, some …

Multi-robot directed coverage path planning in row-based environments

T Lei, P Chintam, C Luo… - 2022 IEEE Fifth …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple autonomous robots are deployed to fulfill tasks collaboratively in real-world
applications with row-based settings as found in precision agriculture, warehouses, factory …

Multi-robot coverage and exploration using spatial graph neural networks

E Tolstaya, J Paulos, V Kumar… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The multi-robot coverage problem is an essential building block for systems that perform
tasks like inspection, exploration, or search and rescue. We discretize the coverage problem …

Rhocop: receding horizon multi-robot coverage

SN Das, I Saha - 2018 ACM/IEEE 9th International Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coverage of a partially known workspace for information gathering is the core problem for
several applications, such as search and rescue, precision agriculture and monitoring of …

Large-Scale Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning via Local Search

J Tang, H Ma - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
We study graph-based Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) that aims to compute
coverage paths for multiple robots to cover all vertices of a given 2D grid terrain graph G …

Multi-target coverage with connectivity maintenance using knowledge-incorporated policy framework

S Wu, Z Pu, Z Liu, T Qiu, J Yi… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a multi-target coverage problem where a robot team aims to efficiently
cover multi-targets while maintaining connectivity in a distributed manner. A novel …

A collective adaptive approach to decentralised k-coverage in multi-robot systems

D Pianini, F Pettinari, R Casadei, L Esterle - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We focus on the online multi-object k-coverage problem (OMOkC), where mobile robots are
required to sense a mobile target from k diverse points of view, coordinating themselves in a …

Balanced map coverage using reinforcement learning in repeated obstacle environments

X Xia, T Roppel, JY Hung, J Zhang… - 2020 IEEE 29th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates novel Complete Coverage Path Planning using reinforcement
learning to enable a robot to complete map coverage at high speeds in complicated …

Resilient coverage: Exploring the local-to-global trade-off

RK Ramachandran, L Zhou, JA Preiss… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a centralized control framework to select suitable robots from a heterogeneous
pool and place them at appropriate locations to monitor a region for events of interest. In the …

Scalable online coverage path planning for multi-robot systems

R Mitra, I Saha - 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online coverage path planning to explore an unknown workspace with multiple
homogeneous robots could be either centralized or distributed. While distributed planners …