Abstract Purpose of Review This review summarizes the broad roles that communication
formats and technologies have played in enabling multi-robot systems. We approach this …

The coverage problem, as a fundamental problem for almost all types of applications in
wireless sensor networks (WSNs), has been studied for over a decade. Because of its …

We incorporate communication into the multi-UAV path planning problem for search and
rescue missions to enable dynamic task allocation via information dissemination …

This paper is concerned with the collective behaviors of robots beyond the nearest neighbor
rules, ie, dispersion and flocking, when robots interact with others by applying an acute …

In this paper we develop an intermittent communication framework for teams of mobile
robots. Robots move along the edges of a mobility graph and communicate only when they …

This paper introduces the normalized unused sensing capacity to measure the amount of
information that a sensor is currently gathering relative to its theoretical maximum. This …

This paper addresses task planning problems for language-instructed robot teams. Tasks
are expressed in natural language (NL), requiring the robots to apply their capabilities (eg …

In this paper, we develop a distributed intermittent communication and task planning
framework for mobile robot teams. The goal of the robots is to accomplish complex tasks …

The coverage control problem for mobile sensor networks with limited communication
ranges is addressed in this paper. The goal of the problem is to minimize a coverage cost …

We consider the problem of optimally allocating tasks, expressed as global linear temporal
logic (LTL) specifications, to teams of heterogeneous mobile robots of different types. Each …