Abstract Purpose of Review Robotic patrolling aims at protecting a physical environment by
deploying a team of one or more autonomous mobile robots in it. A key problem in this …

Search and rescue (SAR) operations can take significant advantage from supporting
autonomous or teleoperated robots and multi-robot systems. These can aid in mapping and …

Multi-robot systems gain considerable attention due to lower cost, better robustness, and
higher scalability as compared with single-robot systems. Cooperative object transport, as a …

Autonomous or teleoperated robots have been playing increasingly important roles in civil
applications in recent years. Across the different civil domains where robots can support …

Connectivity maintenance is an essential aspect to consider while controlling a multi-robot
system. In general, a multi-robot system should be connected to obtain a certain common …

Approaches that aim to maintain the connectivity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or
drones either utilize cellular networks or propose to jointly optimize connectivity needs with …

Mobile robots, especially unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are of increasing interest for
surveillance and disaster response scenarios. We consider the problem of multi-robot …

Connectivity maintenance is crucial for the real world deployment of multi-robot systems, as
it ultimately allows the robots to communicate, coordinate and perform tasks in a …

Deriving a distributed, time-efficient, and connectivity-guaranteed coverage policy in
multitarget environment poses huge challenges for a multirobot team with limited coverage …

In many cases the multi-robot systems are desired to execute simultaneously multiple
behaviors with different controllers, and sequences of behaviors in real time, which we call …