Region coverage-aware path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles: A systematic review

K Kumar, N Kumar - Physical Communication, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to carry out remote aerial surveys has become
prominent in recent years. The UAV-based survey faces several operational issues, such as …

Tmstc*: A path planning algorithm for minimizing turns in multi-robot coverage

J Lu, B Zeng, J Tang, TL Lam… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coverage path planning is a major application for mobile robots, which requires robots to
move along a planned path to cover the entire map. For large-scale tasks, multirobot …

Multi-uav disaster environment coverage planning with limited-endurance

H Song, J Yu, J Qiu, Z Sun, K Lang… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disaster areas involving floods and earthquakes are commonly large, with the rescue time
being quite tight, suggesting multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) exploration rather than …

Mixed Integer Programming for Time-Optimal Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning with Heuristics

J Tang, H Ma - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate time-optimal Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) for both
unweighted and weighted terrains, which aims to minimize the coverage time, defined as the …

Sp2e: Online spiral coverage with proactive prevention extremum for unknown environments

L Li, D Shi, S Jin, S Yang, Y Lian, H Liu - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2023 - Springer
Coverage path planning (CPP) is the foundation of multiple robotic applications. The
efficiency of CPP is affected by the local extremum, which describes a situation with the …

UGV Coverage Path Planning: An Energy-Efficient Approach through Turn Reduction

N Baras, M Dasygenis - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the advent and rapid growth of automation, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have
emerged as a crucial technology, with applications spanning various domains, from …

Optimized Offline-Coverage Path Planning Algorithm for Multi-Robot for Weeding in Paddy Fields

M Govindaraju, D Fontanelli, SS Kumar… - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The coverage path planning (CPP) algorithms play a key role in autonomous robot
applications, making area coverage operations efficient and cost-effective. The extension of …

Large-Scale Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning via Local Search

J Tang, H Ma - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
We study graph-based Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) that aims to compute
coverage paths for multiple robots to cover all vertices of a given 2D grid terrain graph G …

APF-CPP: An Artificial Potential Field Based Multi-Robot Online Coverage Path Planning Approach

Z Wang, X Zhao, J Zhang, N Yang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot coverage planning has gained significant attention in recent years. In this letter,
we introduce a novel approach called APF-CPP (Artificial Potential Field Based Multi-Robot …

A Hierarchical Multi Robot Coverage Strategy for Large Maps With Reinforcement Learning and Dense Segmented Siamese Network

Y Huang, Y Wang, Z Li, H Zhang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Complete coverage of multiple robots for a large map is an important collaborative planning
task, which is widely used in disaster search and rescue, forest fire prevention, resource …