A survey on unmanned surface vehicles for disaster robotics: Main challenges and directions

VAM Jorge, R Granada, RG Maidana, DA Jurak… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Disaster robotics has become a research area in its own right, with several reported cases of
successful robot deployment in actual disaster scenarios. Most of these disaster …

Needs-driven heterogeneous multi-robot cooperation in rescue missions

Q Yang, R Parasuraman - 2020 ieee international symposium …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on the teaming aspects and the role of heterogeneity in a multi-robot
system applied to robot-aided urban search and rescue (USAR) missions. We propose a …

A gradient-free three-dimensional source seeking strategy with robustness analysis

S Al-Abri, W Wu, F Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed source seeking in a three-dimensional (3-D) environment without explicit
estimation of the gradient of the field is challenging. Nevertheless, for a swarm of an arbitrary …

Self-Adaptive Swarm System

Q Yang - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Multi-agent systems (MAS) could play a pivotal role in realizing future intelligent
workspaces, especially in building so-called artificial social systems, such as self-driving …

Simulating fine-scale marine pollution plumes for autonomous robotic environmental monitoring

M Fahad, Y Guo, B Bingham - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Marine plumes exhibit characteristics such as intermittency, sinuous structure, shape and
flow field coherency, and a time varying concentration profile. Due to the lack of …