Multi-robot information gathering for precision agriculture: Current state, scope, and challenges

A Dutta, S Roy, OP Kreidl, L Bölöni - Ieee Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precision agriculture is the collection of hardware and software technologies that allow a
farmer to make informed, differentiated decisions regarding agricultural operations such as …

Efficient distance-optimal tethered path planning in planar environments: The workspace convexity

T Yang, R Xiong, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03969, 2022 - arxiv.org
The main contribution of this paper is the proof of the convexity of the omni-directional
tethered robot workspace (namely, the set of all tether-length-admissible robot …

Entanglement Definitions for Tethered Robots: Exploration and Analysis

G Battocletti, D Boskos, D Tolić, I Palunko… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this article we consider the problem of tether entanglement for tethered robots. In many
applications, such as maintenance of underwater structures, aerial inspection, and …

Tangle-free exploration with a tethered mobile robot

D Shapovalov, GAS Pereira - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Exploration and remote sensing with mobile robots is a well known field of research, but
current solutions cannot be directly applied for tethered robots. In some applications, tethers …

Online Trajectory Deformation and Tracking for Self-entanglement-free Differential-Driven Robots

J Liu, T Yang, W Lu, Y Wang… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces an optimisation-based trajectory deformation and tracking algorithm
for tethered differential-driven mobile robots. The motivation of this work is to generate self …

Self-Entanglement-Free Tethered Path Planning for Non-Particle Differential-Driven Robot

T Yang, J Liu, Y Wang, R Xiong - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel mechanism to derive self-entanglement-free path for tethered differential-driven
robots is proposed in this work. The problem is tailored to the applications of tethered robots …

Sparse Waypoint Validity Checking for Self-Entanglement-Free Tethered Path Planning

T Yang, J Liu, Y Wang, R Xiong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15931, 2023 - arxiv.org
A novel mechanism to derive self-entanglement-free (SEF) path for tethered differential-
driven robots is proposed in this work. The problem is tailored to the deployment of tethered …

Planning Problems in a Multi-Tethered-Robot System

X Peng - 2024 - hal.science
Multiple robot systems are widely applied in our real life. As a special type of mobile system,
tethered robots play a crucial role in special contexts, particularly in challenging conditions …

A constant-factor approximation algorithm for online coverage path planning with energy constraint

A Dutta, G Sharma - International Conference on Intelligent Human …, 2022 - Springer
We study the problem of coverage planning by a mobile robot with a limited energy budget.
The objective of the robot is to cover every point in the environment while minimizing the …