The use of unmanned ground vehicles (mobile robots) and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) in the civil infrastructure asset management sector:: Applications …

X Hu, RH Assaad - 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
The increasing computational power of machines and more affordable robotic hardware and
software offer great opportunities for develo** more advanced intelligent robotic systems …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-sensing paradigm based urban air quality monitoring and hazardous gas source analyzing: a review

Z Zhu, B Chen, Y Zhao, Y Ji - Journal of safety science and resilience, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Effectively monitoring urban air quality, and analyzing the source terms of the main
atmospheric pollutants is important for public authorities to take air quality management …

An improved a-star algorithm for complete coverage path planning of unmanned ships

B Guo, Z Kuang, J Guan, M Hu, L Rao… - International Journal of …, 2022‏ - World Scientific
Aiming at the low efficiency and high energy consumption of unmanned ships traversing the
entire area, a complete coverage path planning algorithm based on the improved A-star …

Source searching in unknown obstructed environments through source estimation, target determination, and path planning

Y Ji, Y Zhao, B Chen, Z Zhu, Y Liu, H Zhu… - Building and Environment, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Autonomous mobile robots have been gradually employed to search unknown sources in
indoor environments. However, current studies have not fully addressed the source …

A deep reinforcement learning based searching method for source localization

Y Zhao, B Chen, XH Wang, Z Zhu, Y Wang, G Cheng… - Information …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The localization of hazardous sources (eg poisonous gas sources) is an important task
regarding the security of human society. To find the unknown source in time, various …

Autonomous source term estimation in unknown environments: From a dual control concept to UAV deployment

C Rhodes, C Liu, WH Chen - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the gas source search and localisation problem, the use of autonomous robots is of
increasing interest due to their deployment speed and lack of human interaction with …

Receding-horizon RRT-Infotaxis for autonomous source search in urban environments

S An, M Park, H Oh - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In emergency situations such as hazardous gas leak, search and estimation for identifying
source information, known as source term estimation (STE), in a timely and accurate manner …

[HTML][HTML] Aid-rl: active information-directed reinforcement learning for autonomous source seeking and estimation

Z Li, WH Chen, J Yang, Y Yan - Neurocomputing, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This paper proposes an active information-directed reinforcement learning (AID-RL)
framework for autonomous source seeking and estimation problem. Source seeking …

Autonomous goal detection and cessation in reinforcement learning: A case study on source term estimation

Y Shi, M Wen, Q Zhang, W Zhang, C Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning has revolutionized decision-making processes in dynamic
environments, yet it often struggles with autonomously detecting and achieving goals …

Regression-enhanced Entrotaxis as an autonomous search algorithm for seeking an unknown gas leakage source

X Zhao, W Zhou, K Cheng, Y Cao, SH Yang - Expert Systems with …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Rapid localization of hazardous gas leak sources is a vital task regarding the security of
human society. Over the past few decades, autonomous search using mobile sensing …