Abstract Purpose of Review Robotic patrolling aims at protecting a physical environment by
deploying a team of one or more autonomous mobile robots in it. A key problem in this …

This article addresses a persistent monitoring problem (PMP) that requires an unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) to repeatedly visit n targets of equal priority. The UAV has limited …

The Visibility-based Persistent Monitoring (VPM) problem seeks to find a set of trajectories
(or controllers) for robots to persistently monitor a changing environment. Each robot has a …

Persistent monitoring on terrains using mobile robotic sensors requires coordinated
planning. Terrain features add visibility obstacles and limited fuel capacity of aerial robots …

We address the multi-agent persistent monitoring problem defined on a set of nodes
(targets) interconnected over a network topology. A measure of mean overall node state …

This work presents a Multiple Depot Traveling Salesman Problem with revisit period
constraints. The revisit period constraints are relevant to persistent routing applications …

Graph patrolling algorithms provide effective strategies for coordinating mobile robots in the
context of autonomously surveilling valuable assets. Optimizing patrolling strategies often …

UAVs have shown great potential application in persistent monitoring, but still have
problems such as difficulty in ensuring monitoring frequency and easy leakage of monitoring …

This paper considers trajectory planning for a mobile robot which persistently relays data
between pairs of far-away communication nodes. Data accumulates stochastically at each …

Persistent monitoring missions require an up-to-date knowledge of the changing state of the
underlying environment. Unmannned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be gainfully employed to …