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 …

Swarm robotics behaviors and tasks: a technical review

MHA Majid, MR Arshad, RM Mokhtar - Control engineering in robotics and …, 2022 - Springer
The field of swarm robotics has been researched for the last few decades to mimic the
capability and the intelligence of biological insects and animals that possess social …

Effect of random walk methods on searching efficiency in swarm robots for area exploration

B Pang, Y Song, C Zhang, R Yang - Applied Intelligence, 2021 - Springer
The objective of area exploration is to traverse the area effectively and random walk
methods are the most commonly used searching strategy for swarm robots. Existing …

A swarm robotic exploration strategy based on an improved random walk method

B Pang, Y Song, C Zhang, H Wang… - Journal of Robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
An environment can be searched far more efficiently if the appropriate search strategy is
used. Because of the limited individual abilities of swarm robots, namely, local sensing and …

Bioinspired environment exploration algorithm in swarm based on levy flight and improved artificial potential field

C Wang, D Wang, M Gu, H Huang, Z Wang, Y Yuan… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inspired by the behaviour of animal populations in nature, we propose a novel exploration
algorithm based on Lévy flight (LF) and artificial potential field (APF). The agent is extended …

Multi-robot target search using probabilistic consensus on discrete Markov chains

A Shirsat, K Elamvazhuthi… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic consensus-based multi-robot search strategy that is
robust to communication link failures, and thus is suitable for disaster affected areas. The …

Persistence region monitor with a pheromone-inspired robot swarm sensor network

Y Wu, M Li, G Li, Y Savaria - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a controller that can coordinate a swarm of robots to cover a
region persistently by forming a mobile sensor network. Therefore, the robot swarm can …

Collective tasks for a flock of robots using influence factor

E Ordaz-Rivas, A Rodriguez-Liñan… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, a form of steering a swarm of robots is presented using behavior local rules
that depends on four parameters. These parameters are related with a general model of the …

Review of flocking organization strategies for robot swarms

FH Martínez - Tekhnê, 2021 - revistas.udistrital.edu.co
Robotics promises great benefits for human beings, both at the industrial level and
concerning personal services. This has led to the continuous development and research in …

Path planning in static scenarios using image processing and cell decomposition

GI Delgado, RO Casallas… - 2014 ieee international …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The path planning is one of the most important areas in robotics. Particularly in static
environments, there are different algorithms that provide important solutions to this problem …