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 …

Hybrid partition-based patrolling scheme for maritime area patrol with multiple cooperative unmanned surface vehicles

J **e, R Zhou, J Luo, Y Peng, Y Liu, S **e… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Multi-robot cooperative patrolling systems have been extensively employed in the civilian
and military fields, including monitoring forest fires, marine search-and-rescue, and area …

Stochastic multi-robot patrolling with limited visibility

T Alam, MM Rahman, P Carrillo, L Bobadilla… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2020 - Springer
Patrolling an environment with multiple robots is a problem with applicability to both military
activities and other areas requiring security. In an adversarial environment, wireless …

A data-driven deployment approach for persistent monitoring in aquatic environments

T Alam, GM Reis, L Bobadilla… - 2018 second IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Processes of scientific interest in the aquatic environment occur across multiple spatio-
temporal time scales. To properly assess and understand these processes, we must observe …

A survey on multi-robot coordination in electromagnetic adversarial environment: Challenges and techniques

Y Wu, X Ren, H Zhou, Y Wang, X Yi - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communications and networking are playing an important role in coordination and
cooperation of multi-robot systems (MRS). However, it is challenging to keep a reliable and …

A visibility roadmap sampling approach for a multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem

T Olsen, AM Tumlin, NM Stiffler… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given a two-dimensional polygonal space, the multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion
problem tasks several pursuer robots with the goal of establishing visibility with an arbitrarily …

Asymptotically-Optimal Multi-Robot Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion

NM Stiffler, JM O'Kane - 2024 IEEE International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem tasks a team of robots with
systematically searching an environment to detect (capture) an evader. Previous techniques …

Planning for robust visibility-based pursuit-evasion

NM Stiffler, JM O'Kane - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of planning for visibility-based pursuit evasion, in
contexts where the pursuer robot may experience some positioning errors as it moves in …

Non-uniform policies for multi-robot asymmetric perimeter patrol in adversarial domains

Y Oshart, N Agmon, S Kraus - … on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we examine the Closed Perimeter Patrol in Adversarial Domain problem, in
which robots travel along a closed perimeter and the adversary is aware of the robots' patrol …

Coastal infrastructure monitoring through heterogeneous autonomous vehicles

T Alam, A Campaneria, M Silva… - 2020 Fourth IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coastal ports represent a fundamental component of a country's critical infrastructure, and
their surveillance is essential to enhance resilience against natural and man-made …