Reinforcement learning for multi-robot field coverage based on local observation

M Zhu, D Simon, N Rajpurohit… - 2020 IEEE 15th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field coverage is a representative exploration task that has many applications ranging from
household chores to navigating harsh and dangerous environments. Autonomous mobile …

Multi-Robot Environmental Coverage With a Two-Stage Coordination Strategy via Deep Reinforcement Learning

L Zhu, J Cheng, H Zhang, W Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot environmental coverage can be widely used in many applications like search
and rescue. However, it is challenging to coordinate the robot team for high coverage …

Multi-robot learning and coverage of unknown spatial fields

M Santos, U Madhushani, A Benevento… - … Symposium on Multi …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of optimally covering a domain when the scalar function
that describes the relative importance of the points in the domain is initially unknown. We …

Decentralized Coverage Path Planning with Reinforcement Learning and Dual Guidance

Y Liu, J Hu, W Dong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07514, 2022 - arxiv.org
Planning coverage path for multiple robots in a decentralized way enhances robustness to
coverage tasks handling uncertain malfunctions. To achieve high efficiency in a distributed …

Efficient Coverage Path Planning in Initially Unknown Environments Using Graph Representation

O Saha, V Ganapathy, J Heydari… - 2021 20th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coverage path planning is an important problem with numerous practical applications. Many
solutions to this problem have been proposed over the past few years. However, most …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Learning to coordinate for a worker-station multi-robot system in planar coverage tasks

J Tang, Y Gao, TL Lam - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For massive large-scale tasks, a multi-robot system (MRS) can effectively improve efficiency
by utilizing each robot's different capabilities, mobility, and functionality. In this letter, we …

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 …