Cooperative robots to observe moving targets

A Khan, B Rinner, A Cavallaro - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deployment of multiple robots for achieving a common goal helps to improve the
performance, efficiency, and/or robustness in a variety of tasks. In particular, the observation …

Lsar: Multi-uav collaboration for search and rescue missions

ET Alotaibi, SS Alqefari, A Koubaa - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the use of a team of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to
accomplish a search and rescue (SAR) mission in the minimum time possible while saving …

IADRL: Imitation augmented deep reinforcement learning enabled UGV-UAV coalition for tasking in complex environments

J Zhang, Z Yu, S Mao, SCG Periaswamy, J Patton… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground
Vehicles (UGVs) have made them highly useful for various tasks. However, they both have …

[PDF][PDF] ROS 2 Key Challenges and Advances: A Survey of ROS 2 Research, Libraries, and Applications

AS Al-Batati, A Koubaa, M Abdelkader - Preprint, 2024 - preprints.org
This study presents a comprehensive systematic review that addresses the critical transition
from ROS 1 to ROS 2, spotlighting the significant enhancements and the pressing need for a …

Turtlebot at office: A service-oriented software architecture for personal assistant robots using ros

A Koubâa, MF Sriti, Y Javed, M Alajlan… - … Robot Systems and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design of an assistive mobile robot to support people in their
everyday activities in office and home environments. The contribution of this paper consists …

[PDF][PDF] ROS as a service: web services for robot operating system

A Koubaa - Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics, 2015 - researchgate.net
Robot Operating System (ROS) represents nowadays a defacto-standard for the prototy**
and development of software for robotics applications. It presents several software …

Move and improve: a market-based mechanism for the multiple depot multiple travelling salesmen problem

A Koubâa, O Cheikhrouhou, H Bennaceur… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2017 - Springer
Consider the problem of having a team of cooperative and autonomous robots to repeatedly
visit a set of target locations and return back to their initial locations. This problem is known …

Towards a hybrid software architecture and multi-agent approach for autonomous robot software

S Yang, X Mao, S Yang, Z Liu - International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
To support robust plan execution of autonomous robots in dynamic environments,
autonomous robot software should include adaptive and reactive capabilities to cope with …

ALLIANCE‐ROS: A Software Framework on ROS for Fault‐Tolerant and Cooperative Mobile Robots

Z Guo, W Yang, M Li, X Yi, Z Cai… - Chinese Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Programming control systems for mobile robots is complicated and time‐consuming, due to
three aspects, ie, the robot behavior coordination, the distributed multi‐robot cooperation …

Achieving reliable communication between Kafka and ROS through bridge codes

LL Lourenço, G Oliveira, PDM Plentz… - … on advanced robotics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The number of smart warehouses has increased in the last few years, mainly because of the
enormous sales volume in e-commerce systems. Such physical environments are fully …