Abstract Purpose of Review Multi-robot exploration—ie, the problem of mapping unknown
features of an environment—is fundamental in many tasks, including search and rescue …

Robotics has dramatically increased our ability to gather data about our environments. This
is an opportune time for the robotics and algorithms community to come together to …

We consider the NP-hard problem of multirobot informative path planning in the presence of
communication constraints, where the objective is to collect higher amounts of information of …

The hexapod robot is one of the important classes in legged robots due to its great potential
to operate in complex settings with high stability and flexibility. However, few researches …

Robotics has dramatically increased our ability to gather data about our environments,
creating an opportunity for the robotics and algorithms communities to collaborate on novel …

This article focuses on the coordination and communication aspects of multi-robot systems
(MRS) and explores what, how and when robots should coordinate and communicate in …

The distributed coordination of robot teams performing complex tasks is challenging to
formulate. The different aspects of a complete task such as local planning for obstacle …

Featured Application CONCERTS is aimed at Search and Rescue and related applications
in urban and indoor environments where mission completion time is critical. Abstract This …

This article considers the problem of safely coordinating a team of sensor-equipped robots
to reduce uncertainty about a dynamical process, where the objective tradeoffs information …

This paper investigates the substation inspection problems of multimobile robots for large
power stations in smart microgrids. Most multirobot inspection robots generally face the …