A comprehensive review of coverage path planning in robotics using classical and heuristic algorithms

CS Tan, R Mohd-Mokhtar, MR Arshad - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The small battery capacities of the mobile robot and the un-optimized planning efficiency of
the industrial robot bottlenecked the time efficiency and productivity rate of coverage tasks in …

Coverage path planning for maritime search and rescue using reinforcement learning

B Ai, M Jia, H Xu, J Xu, Z Wen, B Li, D Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In maritime search and rescue (SAR), the planning of the search path will directly affect the
efficiency of searching for people overboard in the search area. However, traditional SAR …

Modified a-star algorithm for efficient coverage path planning in tetris inspired self-reconfigurable robot with integrated laser sensor

AV Le, V Prabakaran, V Sivanantham, RE Mohan - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Advancing an efficient coverage path planning in robots set up for application such as
cleaning, painting and mining are becoming more crucial. Such drive in the coverage path …

Cooperative Artificial Intelligence for underwater robotic swarm

W Cai, Z Liu, M Zhang, C Wang - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Underwater Robots such as Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and
Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) has played an important role in many tasks, such as …

Improved coverage path planning for indoor robots based on BIM and robotic configurations

Z Chen, H Wang, K Chen, C Song, X Zhang… - Automation in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Robotics holds great potential to improve productivity in construction, and coverage path
planning (CPP) is an essential capability crucial to various applications, including floor …

An autonomous coverage path planning algorithm for maritime search and rescue of persons-in-water based on deep reinforcement learning

J Wu, L Cheng, S Chu, Y Song - Ocean engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The prevalence of maritime transportation and operations is increasing, leading to a gradual
increase in drowning accidents at sea. In the context of maritime search and rescue (SAR), it …

Energy-constrained multi-UAV coverage path planning for an aerial imagery mission using column generation

Y Choi, Y Choi, S Briceno, DN Mavris - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents a new Coverage Path Planning (CPP) method for an aerial imaging
mission with multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). In order to solve a CPP problem …

[PDF][PDF] On Complete Coverage Path Planning Algorithms for Non-holonomic Mobile Robots: Survey and Challenges.

A Khan, I Noreen, Z Habib - J. Inf. Sci. Eng., 2017 - uhb.edu.sa
The problem of determining a collision free path within a region is an important area of
research in robotics. One significant aspect of this problem is coverage path planning, which …

Real-time area coverage and target localization using receding-horizon ergodic exploration

A Mavrommati, E Tzorakoleftherakis… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although a number of solutions exist for the problems of coverage, search, and target
localization-commonly addressed separately-whether there exists a unified strategy that …

A new coverage path planning algorithm for unmanned surface mapping vehicle based on A-star based searching

Y Ma, Y Zhao, Z Li, X Yan, H Bi, G Królczyk - Applied Ocean Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the coverage path planning issues and mapping platform
construction for unmanned surface mapping vehicle (USMV). An improved BA∗(IBA∗) …