Automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots for recognition and tracking in civil engineering

J Zhang, X Yang, W Wang, J Guan, L Ding… - Automation in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have been
widely used recently to solve various engineering problems in logistics, manufacturing, and …

Toward energy-efficient online Complete Coverage Path Planning of a ship hull maintenance robot based on Glasius Bio-inspired Neural Network

MAVJ Muthugala, SMBP Samarakoon… - Expert systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Regular Ship hull maintenance is an essential for sustainability. The maintenance work of
ship hulls that involve human labor suffers from many shortcomings. Maintenance robots …

Coverage path planning for decomposition reconfigurable grid-maps using deep reinforcement learning based travelling salesman problem

PT Kyaw, A Paing, TT Thu, RE Mohan, AV Le… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimizing the coverage path planning (CPP) in robotics has become essential to
accomplish efficient coverage applications. This work presents a novel approach to solve …

Multi-objective genetic algorithm-based autonomous path planning for hinged-tetro reconfigurable tiling robot

KP Cheng, RE Mohan, NHK Nhan, AV Le - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable robots have received broad research interest due to the high dexterity they
provide and the complex actions they could perform. Robots with reconfigurability are …

Reinforcement learning-based complete area coverage path planning for a modified hTrihex robot

KGS Apuroop, AV Le, MR Elara, BJ Sheu - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the essential attributes of a cleaning robot is to achieve complete area coverage.
Current commercial indoor cleaning robots have fixed morphology and are restricted to …

Reinforcement learning-based optimal complete water-blasting for autonomous ship hull corrosion cleaning system

AV Le, PT Kyaw, P Veerajagadheswar… - Ocean …, 2021 - Elsevier
Routine cleaning of the corroded ship hulls in dry dock maintenance guarantees the smooth
operation of the shipping industry. Deploying the autonomous system to remove the …

Towards optimal hydro-blasting in reconfigurable climbing system for corroded ship hull cleaning and maintenance

AV Le, P Veerajagadheswar, PT Kyaw… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
The operation of a ship in the ocean depends crucially on the quality of routine offshore dry
dock maintenance. Automation by robotics is an efficient solution to address the issues of …

Complete coverage path planning for reconfigurable omni-directional mobile robots with varying width using gbnn (n)

L Yi, AYS Wan, AV Le, AA Hayat, QR Tang… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-reconfigurable robots which can change their footprint's width have demonstrated the
ability to access confined areas. To enhance the efficiency of area coverage in complete …

Reinforcement learning-based energy-aware area coverage for reconfigurable hRombo tiling robot

AV Le, R Parween, PT Kyaw, RE Mohan… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applying the automation in covering the areas entirely eases manual jobs in various
domestic fields such as site investigation, search, rescue, security, cleaning, and …

Reconfiguration during locomotion by pavement sweeping robot with feedback control from vision system

L Yi, AV Le, AA Hayat, CSCS Borusu, RE Mohan… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Routine cleaning the pavement is an essential requirement to maintain a sustainable
environment for social life. The different width and type of pavements raise the challenges …