A literature review on police patrolling problems

S Samanta, G Sen, SK Ghosh - Annals of Operations Research, 2022 - Springer
Police patrol is an effective crime prevention tool and boosts public confidence in urban
security. Many interesting decision making problems appear in route design, resource …

Optimal persistent monitoring using second-order agents with physical constraints

YW Wang, YW Wei, XK Liu, N Zhou… - … on Automatic Control, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses a one-dimensional optimal persistent monitoring problem using
second-order agents. The goal is to control the movements of agents to minimize a …

Distributed on-line dynamic task assignment for multi-robot patrolling

A Farinelli, L Iocchi, D Nardi - Autonomous Robots, 2017 - Springer
Multi-robot patrolling is a key feature for various applications related to surveillance and
security, and it has been studied from several different perspectives, ranging from …

Distributed multi-robot patrol: A scalable and fault-tolerant framework

D Portugal, RP Rocha - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the Multi-Robot Patrolling Problem, where agents must coordinate
their actions while continuously deciding which place to move next after clearing their …

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 …

Cooperative dual-task path planning for persistent surveillance and emergency handling by multiple unmanned ground vehicles

JQ Zhang, YZ Wu, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Road network persistent surveillance requires a swarm of unmanned ground vehicles
(UGVs) to repeatedly surveil a sequence of places called viewpoints on a road network and …

Multi-agent architecture for information retrieval and intelligent monitoring by UAVs in known environments affected by catastrophes

D Vallejo, JJ Castro-Schez, C Glez-Morcillo… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2020 - Elsevier
The consequences of natural or man-made catastrophes can be devastating. To minimize its
impact, it is crucial to carry out a rapid analysis of the affected environment in the moments …

[HTML][HTML] Develo** an online cooperative police patrol routing strategy

H Chen, T Cheng, S Wise - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
A cooperative routing strategy for daily operations is necessary to maintain the effects of
hotspot policing and to reduce crime and disorder. Existing robot patrol routing strategies …

3D multi-robot patrolling with a two-level coordination strategy

L Freda, M Gianni, F Pirri, A Gawel, R Dubé… - Autonomous …, 2019 - Springer
Teams of UGVs patrolling harsh and complex 3D environments can experience interference
and spatial conflicts with one another. Neglecting the occurrence of these events crucially …

Modeling and path planning for persistent surveillance by unmanned ground vehicle

T Wang, P Huang, G Dong - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel modeling and path planning framework to tackle a new
problem, named road-network persistent surveillance problem (RPSP), in which the …