Multi-robot task allocation: A review of the state-of-the-art

A Khamis, A Hussein, A Elmogy - Cooperative robots and sensor networks …, 2015 - Springer
Multi-robot systems (MRS) are a group of robots that are designed aiming to perform some
collective behavior. By this collective behavior, some goals that are impossible for a single …

Unoccupied aircraft systems in marine science and conservation

DW Johnston - Annual review of marine science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The use of unoccupied aircraft systems (UASs, also known as drones) in science is growing
rapidly. Recent advances in microelectronics and battery technology have resulted in the …

Fast underwater image enhancement for improved visual perception

MJ Islam, Y Xia, J Sattar - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present a conditional generative adversarial network-based model for real-
time underwater image enhancement. To supervise the adversarial training, we formulate an …

Enhancing underwater imagery using generative adversarial networks

C Fabbri, MJ Islam, J Sattar - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) rely on a variety of sensors-acoustic, inertial and
visual-for intelligent decision making. Due to its non-intrusive, passive nature and high …

Semantic segmentation of underwater imagery: Dataset and benchmark

MJ Islam, C Edge, Y Xiao, P Luo… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present the first large-scale dataset for semantic Segmentation of
Underwater IMagery (SUIM). It contains over 1500 images with pixel annotations for eight …

A survey of underwater multi-robot systems

Z Zhou, J Liu, J Yu - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a cross-cutting field between ocean development and multi-robot system (MRS), the
underwater multi-robot system (UMRS) has gained increasing attention from researchers …

Multi-scale adversarial network for underwater image restoration

J Lu, N Li, S Zhang, Z Yu, H Zheng, B Zheng - Optics & Laser Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Underwater image restoration, which is the keystone to the underwater vision research, is
still a challenging work. The key point of underwater image restoration work is how to …

A review of recent advances in coordination between unmanned aerial and ground vehicles

Y Ding, B Xin, J Chen - Unmanned Systems, 2021 - World Scientific
Coordination between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles
(UGVs) has received increasing attention in recent years. The list of successful applications …

Adaptive learning attention network for underwater image enhancement

S Liu, H Fan, S Lin, Q Wang, N Ding… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images suffer from color casts and low illumination due to the scattering and
absorption of light as it propagates in water. These problems can interfere with underwater …

Person-following by autonomous robots: A categorical overview

MJ Islam, J Hong, J Sattar - The International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
A wide range of human–robot collaborative applications in diverse domains, such as
manufacturing, health care, the entertainment industry, and social interactions, require an …