Distributed coverage estimation and control for multirobot persistent tasks

JM Palacios-Gasós, E Montijano… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the problem of persistently covering an environment with a group
of mobile robots. In contrast to traditional coverage, in our scenario the coverage level of the …

Multi-robot routing for persistent monitoring with latency constraints

AB Asghar, SL Smith… - 2019 American Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we study a multi-robot path planning problem for persistent monitoring of an
environment. We represent the areas to be monitored as the vertices of a weighted graph …

A virtual force interaction scheme for multi-robot environment monitoring

K Ji, Q Zhang, Z Yuan, H Cheng, D Yu - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
The autonomous multi-robot system is an emerging technology that has a wide range of
potential applications, such as environmental monitoring, exploration of unknown area …

[HTML][HTML] Matheuristics for multi-UAV routing and recharge station location for complete area coverage

R Santin, L Assis, A Vivas, LCA Pimenta - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents matheuristics for routing a heterogeneous group of capacitated
unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for complete coverage of ground areas, considering …

Multi-robot persistent monitoring: minimizing latency and number of robots with recharging constraints

AB Asghar, S Sundaram… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study multirobot path planning for persistent monitoring tasks. We consider
the case where robots have a limited battery capacity with a discharge time. We represent …

Equitable persistent coverage of non-convex environments with graph-based planning

JM Palacios-Gasós, D Tardioli… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we tackle the problem of persistently covering a complex non-convex
environment with a team of robots. We consider scenarios where the coverage quality of the …

Learning generalizable patrolling strategies through domain randomization of attacker behaviors

CD Alvarenga, N Basilico… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph-patrolling problems in the adversarial domain typically embed models and
assumptions about how hostile events, from which an environment must be protected, are …

Complete, decomposition-free coverage path planning

T Kusnur, M Likhachev - 2022 IEEE 18th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coverage Path Planning (CPP) requires planning collision-free paths for a robot that
observes all reachable points of interest in an environment. Most popular CPP approaches …

Cooperative periodic coverage with collision avoidance

JM Palacios-Gasós, E Montijano… - … on Control Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a periodic solution to the problem of persistently covering a finite
set of interest points with a group of autonomous mobile agents. These agents visit …

Multi-robot persistent coverage with optimal times

JM Palacios-Gasós, E Montijano… - 2016 IEEE 55th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the persistent coverage problem, in which a group of autonomous
robots must visit periodically a finite set of interest points and spend some time covering …