Graph‐based subterranean exploration path planning using aerial and legged robots

T Dang, M Tranzatto, S Khattak… - Journal of Field …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous exploration of subterranean environments remains a major challenge for
robotic systems. In response, this paper contributes a novel graph‐based subterranean …

[HTML][HTML] A mini review on UAV mission planning

X Wang, H Wang, H Zhang, M Wang… - Journal of Industrial …, 2023 - aimsciences.org
With the increasing complexity of modern air warfare, an efficient and robust mission
planning, which mainly includes task assignment and path planning, becomes the key issue …

Motion primitives-based path planning for fast and agile exploration using aerial robots

M Dharmadhikari, T Dang, L Solanka… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel path planning strategy for fast and agile exploration using aerial
robots. Tailored to the combined need for large-scale exploration of challenging and …

Complementary multi–modal sensor fusion for resilient robot pose estimation in subterranean environments

S Khattak, H Nguyen, F Mascarich… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resilient pose estimation for autonomous systems, and especially small unmanned aerial
robots, is one of the core capabilities required for these robots to perform their assigned …

A survey on the autonomous exploration of confined subterranean spaces: Perspectives from real-word and industrial robotic deployments

H Azpúrua, M Saboia, GM Freitas, L Clark… - Robotics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Confined and subterranean areas are common in many civilian and industrial sites,
although they are hazardous for humans given the presence of noxious gases, extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodality robotic systems: Integrated combined legged-aerial mobility for subterranean search-and-rescue

B Lindqvist, S Karlsson, A Koval, I Tevetzidis… - Robotics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents a field-hardened autonomous multimodal legged-aerial robotic system
for subterranean exploration, extending a legged robot to be the carrier of an aerial platform …

A path planning method for underground intelligent vehicles based on an improved RRT* algorithm

H Wang, G Li, J Hou, L Chen, N Hu - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Path planning is one of the key technologies for unmanned driving of underground
intelligent vehicles. Due to the complexity of the drift environment and the vehicle structure …

Smmr-explore: Submap-based multi-robot exploration system with multi-robot multi-target potential field exploration method

J Yu, J Tong, Y Xu, Z Xu, H Dong… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative exploration in an unknown environment without external positioning under
limited communication is an essential task for multi-robot applications. For inter-robot …

Semantic octree map** and shannon mutual information computation for robot exploration

A Asgharivaskasi, N Atanasov - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous robot operation in unstructured and unknown environments requires efficient
techniques for map** and exploration using streaming range and visual observations …

CURE: A hierarchical framework for multi-robot autonomous exploration inspired by centroids of unknown regions

Q Bi, X Zhang, J Wen, Z Pan, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel multi-robot autonomous exploration approach CURE is proposed
based on dynamic Voronoi diagrams and centroids of unknown connected regions …