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 …

Redundancy, efficiency and robustness in multi-robot coverage

N Hazon, GA Kaminka - Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Area coverage is an important task for mobile robots, with many real-world applications.
Motivated by potential efficiency and robustness improvements, there is growing interest in …

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 …

On redundancy, efficiency, and robustness in coverage for multiple robots

N Hazon, GA Kaminka - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2008 - Elsevier
Motivated by potential efficiency and robustness gains, there is growing interest in the use of
multiple robots for coverage. In coverage, robots visit every point in a target area, at least …

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 …

D2coplan: A differentiable decentralized planner for multi-robot coverage

VD Sharma, L Zhou, P Tokekar - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Centralized approaches for multi-robot coverage planning problems suffer from the lack of
scalability. Learning-based distributed algorithms provide a scalable avenue in addition to …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Stigmergic coverage algorithm for multi-robot systems

B Ranjbar-Sahraei, G Weiss, A Nakisaee - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2012 - Citeseer
We demonstrate the realization of stigmergic coverage for multi-robot systems. Compared to
current state-of-the-art algorithms for multi-robot coverage, our Stigmergy-based Coverage …

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 …

Towards robust on-line multi-robot coverage

N Hazon, F Mieli, GA Kaminka - Proceedings 2006 IEEE …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Area coverage is an important task for mobile robots, with many real-world applications. In
many cases, the coverage has to be completed without the use of a map or any a priori …