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 …

A Survey on the autonomous exploration of confined subterranean spaces: Perspectives from real-word and industrial robotic deployments

H Azpúrua, M Saboia, GM Freitas, L Clark… - Robotics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Confined and subterranean areas are common in many civilian and industrial sites,
although they are hazardous for humans given the presence of noxious gases, extreme …

Scalable coverage path planning of multi-robot teams for monitoring non-convex areas

L Collins, P Ghassemi, ET Esfahani… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel multi-robot coverage path planning (CPP) algorithm-aka
SCoPP-that provides a time-efficient solution, with workload balanced plans for each robot …

A bayesian optimization approach for water resources monitoring through an autonomous surface vehicle: The ypacarai lake case study

FP Samaniego, DG Reina, SLT Marín… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bayesian Optimization is a sequential method for obtaining the maximum of an unknown
function that has gained much popularity in recent years. Bayesian Optimization is …

Coverage path planning based on the optimization strategy of multiple solar powered unmanned aerial vehicles

W Le, Z Xue, J Chen, Z Zhang - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
In some specific conditions, UAVs are required to obtain comprehensive information of an
area or to operate in the area in an all-round way. In this case, the coverage path planning …

Robust task scheduling for heterogeneous robot teams under capability uncertainty

B Fu, W Smith, DM Rizzo, M Castanier… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article develops a stochastic programming framework for multiagent systems, where
task decomposition, assignment, and scheduling problems are simultaneously optimized …

Robust planning for persistent surveillance with energy-constrained UAVs and mobile charging stations

X Lin, Y Yazıcıoğlu, D Aksaray - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider persistent (long-horizon) surveillance over an environment by using energy-
constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are supported by unmanned ground …

Route optimization in precision agriculture settings: a multi-steiner TSP formulation

A Furchì, M Lippi, RF Carpio… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we propose a route planning strategy for heterogeneous mobile robots in
Precision Agriculture (PA) settings. Given a set of agricultural tasks to be performed at …

Risk-aware recharging rendezvous for a collaborative team of uavs and ugvs

AB Asghar, G Shi, N Karapetyan… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce and investigate the recharging rendezvous problem for a collaborative team of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), in which UAVs …

Risk-aware uav-ugv rendezvous with chance-constrained markov decision process

G Shi, N Karapetyan, AB Asghar… - 2022 IEEE 61st …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study a chance-constrained variant of the cooperative aerial-ground vehicle routing
problem, in which an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with limited battery capacity and an …