A survey on multi-robot coverage path planning for model reconstruction and mapping

R Almadhoun, T Taha, L Seneviratne, Y Zweiri - SN Applied Sciences, 2019 - Springer
There has been an increasing interest in researching, developing and deploying multi-robot
systems. This has been driven mainly by: the maturity of the practical deployment of a single …

Coverage path planning methods focusing on energy efficient and cooperative strategies for unmanned aerial vehicles

G Fevgas, T Lagkas, V Argyriou, P Sarigiannidis - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The coverage path planning (CPP) algorithms aim to cover the total area of interest with
minimum overlapping. The goal of the CPP algorithms is to minimize the total covering path …

System for deployment of groups of unmanned micro aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments using onboard visual relative localization

M Saska, T Baca, J Thomas, J Chudoba, L Preucil… - Autonomous …, 2017 - Springer
A complex system for control of swarms of micro aerial vehicles (MAV), in literature also
called as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), stabilized via …

Correlated orienteering problem and its application to persistent monitoring tasks

J Yu, M Schwager, D Rus - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose the correlated orienteering problem (COP) as a novel nonlinear extension to
the classic orienteering problem (OP). With the introduction of COP, it becomes possible to …

Cooperative multi-robot patrol with Bayesian learning

D Portugal, RP Rocha - Autonomous Robots, 2016 - Springer
Patrolling indoor infrastructures with a team of cooperative mobile robots is a challenging
task, which requires effective multi-agent coordination. Deterministic patrol circuits for …

Coastal areas division and coverage with multiple UAVs for remote sensing

F Balampanis, I Maza, A Ollero - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper tackles the problems of exact cell decomposition and partitioning of a coastal
region for a team of heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with an approach …

UAV-based persistent full area coverage with dynamic priorities

L Feng, J Katupitiya - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper tackles the problem of performing persistent and complete coverage of a target
space with a minimum number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The UAVs are …

A fault-tolerant self-organizing flocking approach for UAV aerial survey

M De Benedetti, F D'Urso, G Fortino, F Messina… - Journal of Network and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper we analyze the problem of self-organization for a flock of multirotor UAVs out on
a monitoring mission. Such a mission consists in, basically, acquiring data relevant to a …

Clustered coverage orienteering problem of unmanned surface vehicles for water sampling

W Zhang, K Wang, S Wang… - Naval Research Logistics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates a clustered coverage orienteering problem (CCOP), which is a
generalization of the classical orienteering problem. The problem is widely motivated by the …

Area partition for coastal regions with multiple UAS

F Balampanis, I Maza, A Ollero - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2017 - Springer
The paper presents a novel algorithmic approach that allows to tackle in a common
framework the problems of area decomposition, partition and coverage for multiple …