Motion planning is a vital module for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially in
scenarios of autonomous navigation and operation. This survey delivers some recent state …

Exploration is an important aspect of robotics, whether it is for mapping, rescue missions, or
path planning in an unknown environment. Frontier Exploration planning (FEP) and …

To date, a large number of algorithms to solve the problem of autonomous exploration and
mapping has been presented. However, few efforts have been made to compare these …

This paper presents a new sensor based global path planner which operates in two steps. In
the first step the safest areas in the environment are extracted by means of a Voronoi …

Recent advancements in three-dimensional (3D) scanning technology have broadened its
applicability across fields like reverse engineering and autonomous robot navigation, which …

This paper is about the autonomous acquisition of detailed 3D maps of a-priori unknown
environments using a stereo camera-it is about choosing where to go. Our approach hinges …

We present a decision theoretic approach to mobile robot exploration. The method
evaluates the reduction of joint path and map entropy and computes a potential information …

Motion planning, or goal-oriented, context-sensitive, intelligent control is essential if an
agent is to act in a useful manner. This paper suggests a new class of motion planners that …

In this work, we address the single robot navigation problem within a planar and arbitrarily
connected workspace. In particular, we present an algorithm that transforms any static …

Harmonic functions are abundant in nature, appearing in limiting cases of Maxwell's, Navier-
Stokes equations, the heat and the wave equation. Consequently, there are many …