Taking fast action, and effectively utilizing the available resources, are important when
conducting time-critical surveillance missions. In addition, the potential complexity of the …

This tutorial introduces and discusses two topics that are related to the application of search
and rescue operations over uncertain terrains, which are common in both humanitarian and …

In this paper we deal with a practical problem that arises in military mission planning. The
problem is to plan a path for one, or more, agents to reach a target without being detected by …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-2546. vid Coverage of an
inaccessible or challenging region with potential health and safety hazards, such as in a …

Full coverage and exploration of an environment is essential in robot rescue operations
where victim identification is required. Three methods of target selection towards full …

Aerial coverage path planning is a type of path planning where the sensor footprint covers
all accessible parts of the area of interest. This type of path planning finds application in …

Problems such as searching for enemy units on a battlefield, detecting smugglers as they
cross an international border, and skip tracing involve generating plans to employ limited …

This thesis addresses the problem of motion planning for autonomous robots, given a map
and an estimate of the robot pose within it. The motion planning problem for a mobile robot …

A solution to the multiple depot heterogeneous traveling salesman problem with a min-max
objective is in great demand with many potential applications of unmanned vehicles, as it is …

This work focuses on surveillance problems on areas comprised of weighted regions using
unmanned aerial vehicles. The objective is to develop a path planning algorithm in order to …