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 …

Deep-reinforcement-learning-based multitarget coverage With connectivity guaranteed

S Wu, Z Pu, T Qiu, J Yi, T Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deriving a distributed, time-efficient, and connectivity-guaranteed coverage policy in
multitarget environment poses huge challenges for a multirobot team with limited coverage …

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 …

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-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 …

Development and implementation of a multi-robot system for collaborative exploration and complete coverage

YC Huang, HY Lin - … Conference on Signal-Image Technology & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot research has significant progress in many aspects. Recently, it tends to reduce
the time task type such as disaster relief and exploration. Multi-robots in large environments …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperative Coverage Path Planning for Multi-Mobile Robots Based on Improved K-Means Clustering and Deep Reinforcement Learning

J Ni, Y Gu, G Tang, C Ke, Y Gu - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
With the increasing complexity of patrol tasks, the use of deep reinforcement learning for
collaborative coverage path planning (CPP) of multi-mobile robots has become a new …

Large-scale heterogeneous multi-robot coverage via domain decomposition and generative allocation

J Hu, H Coffin, J Whitman, M Travers… - International Workshop on …, 2022 - Springer
This paper develops a new approach to direct a set of heterogeneous agents, varying in
mobility and sensing capabilities, to quickly cover a large region, say for example in the …

Scalable coverage path planning of multi-robot teams for monitoring non-convex areas

L Collins, P Ghassemi, ET Esfahani… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel multi-robot coverage path planning (CPP) algorithm-aka
SCoPP-that provides a time-efficient solution, with workload balanced plans for each robot …

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 …