Cooperative Multi-agent Systems for the Multi-target -Coverage Problem

M Frasheri, L Esterle, AV Papadopoulos - International Conference on …, 2020 - Springer
When multiple robots are required to collaborate in order to accomplish a specific task, they
need to be coordinated in order to operate efficiently. To allow for scalability and robustness …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling the Willingness to Interact in Cooperative Multi-robot Systems.

M Frasheri, L Esterle, AV Papadopoulos - ICAART (1), 2020 - scitepress.org
When multiple robots are required to collaborate in order to accomplish a specific task, they
need to be coordinated in order to operate efficiently. To allow for scalability and robustness …

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 …

Online multi-object k-coverage with mobile smart cameras

L Esterle, PR Lewis - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we combine k-coverage with the Cooperative Multi-robot Observation of
Multiple Moving Targets problem, defining the new problem of online multi-object k …

Multi-agent coalition formation for distributed area coverage

K Cheng, P Dasgupta - … Workshops, CARE@ AI09 2009/CARE@ IAT10 …, 2011 - Springer
In the multi-robot area coverage problem, a group of mobile robots have to cover an initially
unknown environment using a sensor or coverage tool attached to each robot. Multi-robot …

Exploiting submodularity to quantify near-optimality in multi-agent coverage problems

X Sun, CG Cassandras, X Meng - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
We consider optimal coverage problems for a multi-agent network aiming to maximize a joint
event detection probability in an environment with obstacles. The objective function of this …

Distributed autonomy and trade‐offs in online multiobject k‐coverage

L Esterle, PR Lewis - Computational Intelligence, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we explore the online multiobject k‐coverage problem in visual sensor
networks. This problem combines k‐coverage and the cooperative multirobot observation of …

Weighted voting game based multi-robot team formation for distributed area coverage

K Cheng, P Dasgupta - Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
In the multi-robot area coverage problem, a group of mobile robots have to cover an initially
unknown environment using a sensor or coverage tool attached to each robot. Multi-robot …

Collision Avoiding Max-Sum for Mobile Sensor Teams

A Pertzovsky, R Zivan, N Agmon - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2024 - jair.org
Recent advances in technology have large teams of robots with limited computation skills
work together in order to achieve a common goal. Their personal actions need to contribute …

Multi-agent Cooperative Area Coverage: A Two-stage Planning Approach Based on Reinforcement Learning

G Yuan, J Xiao, J He, H Jia, Y Wang, Z Wang - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Multi-agent area coverage aims to accomplish the complete traversal of the target area
through cooperation between agents. Focusing on the problems of low coverage efficiency …