Unmanned aerial vehicles, can offer solutions to a lot of problems, making it crucial to
research more and improve the task allocation methods used. In this survey, the main …

Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) focuses on locating and extricating missing
persons in remote settings. As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or “drone” technology has …

There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of Multi-Robot
coordination and Modular Robotics. This work evaluates the secure coordination of an …

Research with swarm robotics systems can be complicated, time-consuming, and often
expensive in terms of space and resources. The situation is even worse for studies involving …

Intelligent robotic systems are becoming ever more present in our lives across a multitude of
domains such as industry, transportation, agriculture, security, healthcare and even …

The trend of applying robots to search and rescue (SAR) tasks has recently been growing. In
this work, we present FPGA-based robot designs, including unmanned aerial vehicles …

Active Position Estimation (APE) is the task of localizing one or more targets using one or
more sensing platforms. APE is a key task for search and rescue missions, wildlife …

This study deals with the task assignment problem in a heterogeneous unmanned aerial
vehicle system under the multiple constraints of limited resources, effective task execution …

Mobile robots that are capable of multiple modes of locomotion may have tangible
advantages over unimodal robots in unstructured and non-homogeneous environments due …

Utilizing autonomous drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has shown great
advantages over preceding methods in support of urgent scenarios such as search and …