Failure-resilient coverage maximization with multiple robots

M Ishat-E-Rabban, P Tokekar - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The task of maximizing coverage using multiple robots has several applications such as
surveillance, exploration, and environmental monitoring. A major challenge of deploying …

Tmstc*: A path planning algorithm for minimizing turns in multi-robot coverage

J Lu, B Zeng, J Tang, TL Lam… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coverage path planning is a major application for mobile robots, which requires robots to
move along a planned path to cover the entire map. For large-scale tasks, multirobot …

Line coverage with multiple robots

S Agarwal, S Akella - 2020 IEEE International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The line coverage problem is the coverage of linear environment features (eg, road
networks, power lines), modeled as 1D segments, by one or more robots while respecting …

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 …

Learning Coverage Paths in Unknown Environments with Deep Reinforcement Learning

A Jonnarth, J Zhao, M Felsberg - Forty-first International Conference …, 2023 - openreview.net
Coverage path planning (CPP) is the problem of finding a path that covers the entire free
space of a confined area, with applications ranging from robotic lawn mowing to search-and …

Sweep-your-map: Efficient coverage planning for aerial teams in large-scale environments

D Morilla-Cabello, L Bartolomei… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The efficiency of path-planning in robot navigation is crucial in tasks such as search-and-
rescue and disaster surveying, but this is emphasized even more when considering multi …

Mixed Integer Programming for Time-Optimal Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning with Heuristics

J Tang, H Ma - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate time-optimal Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) for both
unweighted and weighted terrains, which aims to minimize the coverage time, defined as the …

A multirobot cooperative area coverage search algorithm based on bioinspired neural network in unknown environments

B Chen, W Zhang, F Zhang, Y Liu… - IEEE Systems Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel approach based on a bioinspired neural network (BIN) for
multirobot area coverage search in unknown environments. We obtain the dynamic …

Coordination of mobile agents for simultaneous coverage

P Mazdin, B Rinner - PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent …, 2019 - Springer
Simultaneous environment coverage represents a challenging multi-agent application, in
which mobile agents (drones) must cover surfaces by simultaneously capturing images from …

Neural-dynamics-driven complete area coverage navigation through cooperation of multiple mobile robots

C Luo, SX Yang, X Li, MQH Meng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple robots collaboratively achieve a common coverage goal efficiently, which can
improve work capacity, share coverage tasks, and reduce completion time. In this paper, a …