Recently, air pollution problems in urban areas have become serious, and unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) can be used to monitor air pollution because they can perform spatial …

Search is a fundamental task for wilderness search and rescue that can greatly benefit from
the use of a swarm of autonomous UAVs to survey the environment. The benefits are …

In this paper, we propose a formulation of the spatial search problem, where a mobile
searching agent seeks to locate a stationary target in a given search region or declare that …

A receding-horizon cooperative search algorithm is presented that jointly optimizes routes
and sensor orientations for a team of autonomous agents searching for a mobile target in a …

In this paper we consider the problem of monitoring a known set of stationary features (or
locations of interest) in an environment. To observe a feature, a robot must visit its location …

This paper is motivated by the real world problem of search and rescue by unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs). We consider the problem of tracking a static target from a bird's-eye view …

This paper studies the sequential object recognition problem faced by a mobile robot
searching for specific objects within a cluttered environment. In contrast to current state-of …

We present an active visual search model for finding objects in unknown environments. The
proposed algorithm guides the robot towards the sought object using the relevant stimuli …

Finding a target quickly is one of the most important tasks in drone operations. In particular,
rapid target detection is a critical issue for tasks such as finding rescue victims during the …

Through their ability to rapidly acquire aerial imagery, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
have the potential to aid target search tasks. Many of the core algorithms which are used to …