Multiple mobile robot task and motion planning: A survey

L Antonyshyn, J Silveira, S Givigi, J Marshall - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With recent advances in mobile robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence,
there is a growing expectation that robots are able to solve complex problems. Many of …

Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

STyLuS*: A Temporal Logic Optimal Control Synthesis Algorithm for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems

Y Kantaros, MM Zavlanos - The International Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article proposes a new highly scalable and asymptotically optimal control synthesis
algorithm from linear temporal logic specifications, called STyLu S* for large-Scale optimal …

Barrier function based collaborative control of multiple robots under signal temporal logic tasks

L Lindemann, DV Dimarogonas - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by the recent interest in cyber-physical and autonomous robotic systems, we study
the problem of dynamically coupled multiagent systems under a set of signal temporal logic …

Multi-UAV surveillance with minimum information idleness and latency constraints

J Scherer, B Rinner - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss surveillance with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that minimize
information idleness (the lag between the start of the mission and the moment when the data …

Achord: Communication-aware multi-robot coordination with intermittent connectivity

M Saboia, L Clark, V Thangavelu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communication is an important capability for multi-robot exploration because (1) inter-robot
communication (comms) improves coverage efficiency and (2) robot-to-base comms …

Distributed state estimation using intermittently connected robot networks

R Khodayi-mehr, Y Kantaros… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of distributed state estimation (DSE) using multirobot
systems. The robots have limited communication capabilities and, therefore, communicate …

Temporal logic task allocation in heterogeneous multirobot systems

X Luo, MM Zavlanos - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of optimally allocating tasks, expressed as global linear temporal
logic (LTL) specifications, to teams of heterogeneous mobile robots of different types. Each …

Decision-Theoretic Approaches for Robotic Environmental Monitoring--A Survey

Y Sung, J Das, P Tokekar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.02698, 2023 - arxiv.org
Robotics has dramatically increased our ability to gather data about our environments. This
is an opportune time for the robotics and algorithms community to come together to …

Swarm relays: Distributed self-healing ground-and-air connectivity chains

VS Varadharajan, D St-Onge, B Adams… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The coordination of robot swarms-large decentralized teams of robots-generally relies on
robust and efficient inter-robot communication. Maintaining communication between robots …