A comprehensive review of coverage path planning in robotics using classical and heuristic algorithms

CS Tan, R Mohd-Mokhtar, MR Arshad - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The small battery capacities of the mobile robot and the un-optimized planning efficiency of
the industrial robot bottlenecked the time efficiency and productivity rate of coverage tasks in …

Safety and ergonomics in human-robot interactive agricultural operations

L Benos, A Bechar, D Bochtis - Biosystems Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Concepts and aspects of optimal design for human-robot collaborative
systems.•Methods for safe physical interactions between human and robots in …

Agricultural robots for field operations. Part 2: Operations and systems

A Bechar, C Vigneault - Biosystems engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
This part of our review of the research, developments and innovation in agricultural robots
for field operations, focuses on characteristics, performance measures, agricultural tasks …

Agricultural robotics

SG Vougioukas - Annual review of control, robotics, and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
A key goal of contemporary agriculture is to dramatically increase production of food, feed,
fiber, and biofuel products in a sustainable fashion, facing the pressure of diminishing farm …

Human activity recognition through recurrent neural networks for human–robot interaction in agriculture

A Anagnostis, L Benos, D Tsaopoulos, A Tagarakis… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The present study deals with human awareness, which is a very important aspect of human–
robot interaction. This feature is particularly essential in agricultural environments, owing to …

Near-optimal area-coverage path planning of energy-constrained aerial robots with application in autonomous environmental monitoring

KR Jensen-Nau, T Hermans… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article describes a Voronoi-based path generation (VPG) algorithm for an energy-
constrained mobile robot, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The algorithm solves …

Coverage path planning for decomposition reconfigurable grid-maps using deep reinforcement learning based travelling salesman problem

PT Kyaw, A Paing, TT Thu, RE Mohan, AV Le… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimizing the coverage path planning (CPP) in robotics has become essential to
accomplish efficient coverage applications. This work presents a novel approach to solve …

Intelligent coverage path planning for agricultural robots and autonomous machines on three-dimensional terrain

IA Hameed - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2014 - Springer
Field operations should be done in a manner that minimizes time and travels over the field
surface. Automated and intelligent path planning can help to find the best coverage path so …

[PDF][PDF] On Complete Coverage Path Planning Algorithms for Non-holonomic Mobile Robots: Survey and Challenges.

A Khan, I Noreen, Z Habib - J. Inf. Sci. Eng., 2017 - uhb.edu.sa
The problem of determining a collision free path within a region is an important area of
research in robotics. One significant aspect of this problem is coverage path planning, which …

Reinforcement learning-based complete area coverage path planning for a modified hTrihex robot

KGS Apuroop, AV Le, MR Elara, BJ Sheu - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the essential attributes of a cleaning robot is to achieve complete area coverage.
Current commercial indoor cleaning robots have fixed morphology and are restricted to …