Source searching in unknown obstructed environments through source estimation, target determination, and path planning

Y Ji, Y Zhao, B Chen, Z Zhu, Y Liu, H Zhu… - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Autonomous mobile robots have been gradually employed to search unknown sources in
indoor environments. However, current studies have not fully addressed the source …

Using tabu search to avoid concave obstacles for source location

J Zhang, H Liu, P Zu, M Zhao, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, using a particle swarm optimizer (PSO) to guide robots in a source location
problem has attracted widespread interest. While being navigated by PSO, robots are easily …

Searching the diffusive source in an unknown obstructed environment by cognitive strategies with forbidden areas

Y Zhao, B Chen, Z Zhu, F Chen, Y Wang, Y Ji - Building and environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Using sensing robots (searchers) to search for the diffusive source in indoor environments is
a common and vital task in human society. Such environments, however, are always …

Source-seeking multi-robot team simulator as container of nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms and Astar algorithm

H Li, Z Chu, Y Fang, H Liu, M Zhang, K Wang… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
One driving application for multi-robots is source seeking, especially in the hazardous
environment. It consists of two essential subtasks: source location and path search. Nature …

A comparative experimental study of two multi-robot olfaction methods: towards locating time-varying indoor pollutant sources

M Jiang, Y Liao, X Guo, H Cai, W Jiang, Z Yang… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Locating the source of indoor pollutants/hazardous substances is essential to ensure the
health and safety of indoor personnel. The existing studies on source localization using …

Particle swarm optimization-based source seeking

R Zou, V Kalivarapu, E Winer, J Oliver… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The task of locating a source based on the measurements of the signal emitted/emanating
from it is called the source-seeking problem. In the past few years, there has been a lot of …

PSO-based sparse source location in large-scale environments with a uav swarm

J Zhang, Y Lu, Y Wu, C Wang, D Zang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Locating multiple sources in an unknown environment based on their signal strength is
called a multi-source location problem. In recent years, there has been great interest in …

An experimental and numerical study on a multi-robot source localization method independent of airflow information in dynamic indoor environments

Q Feng, H Cai, Y Yang, J Xu, M Jiang, F Li, X Li… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
To locate contaminant sources in dynamic indoor environments, this study presents an
improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) method independent of airflow information and …

CURE: A hierarchical framework for multi-robot autonomous exploration inspired by centroids of unknown regions

Q Bi, X Zhang, J Wen, Z Pan, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel multi-robot autonomous exploration approach CURE is proposed
based on dynamic Voronoi diagrams and centroids of unknown connected regions …

[HTML][HTML] ACA: Automatic search strategy for radioactive source

J Huo, X Hu, J Wang, L Hu - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, mobile robots have been used to search for uncontrolled radioactive source in
indoor environments to avoid radiation exposure for technicians. However, in the indoor …