Path planning for autonomous mobile robots: A review

JR Sánchez-Ibáñez, CJ Pérez-del-Pulgar… - Sensors, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Providing mobile robots with autonomous capabilities is advantageous. It allows one to
dispense with the intervention of human operators, which may prove beneficial in economic …

Integration of solar energy in electrical, hybrid, autonomous vehicles: a technological review

M Waseem, AF Sherwani, M Suhaib - SN Applied Sciences, 2019‏ - Springer
Conventional energy resources are depleting very fast and to meet the global energy
demand, the scarcity of these resources is the most crucial factor in the present era. One of …

Ten questions concerning the use of drones in urban environments

S Watkins, J Burry, A Mohamed, M Marino… - Building and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The backdrop to the rapidly expanding use of drones is described, including development of
drone technology, followed by an overview of current civilian use, focusing on use in and …

Real-time area coverage and target localization using receding-horizon ergodic exploration

A Mavrommati, E Tzorakoleftherakis… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although a number of solutions exist for the problems of coverage, search, and target
localization-commonly addressed separately-whether there exists a unified strategy that …

Simultaneous task and energy planning using deep reinforcement learning

D Wang, M Hu, JD Weir - Information Sciences, 2022‏ - Elsevier
To improve energy awareness of unmanned autonomous vehicles, it is critical to co-optimize
task planning and energy scheduling. To the best of our knowledge, most of the existing task …

Mobile data gathering and energy harvesting in rechargeable wireless sensor networks

Y Liu, KY Lam, S Han, Q Chen - Information Sciences, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the joint data gathering and energy harvesting (JoDGE) problem in
rechargeable wireless sensor networks (RWSNs) with a mobile sink. In RWSNs, the sensor …

A constraint-aware heuristic path planner for finding energy-efficient paths on uneven terrains

N Ganganath, CT Cheng, KT Chi - IEEE transactions on …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motions of mobile robots need to be optimized to minimize their energy consumption to
ensure long periods of continuous operations. Shortest paths do not always guarantee the …

Enabling technologies for autonomous MAV operations

M Elbanhawi, A Mohamed, R Clothier… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The utility of micro air vehicles (MAVs) has expanded significantly in the last decade, and
there are now numerous commercial systems available at relatively low cost. This expansion …

An optimization framework for mobile data collection in energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks

C Wang, S Guo, Y Yang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in environmental energy harvesting technologies have provided great
potentials for traditional battery powered sensor networks to achieve perpetual operations …

Wireless mobile charger excursion optimization algorithm in wireless rechargeable sensor networks

S Malebary - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Employing Wireless Mobile Chargers (WMCs) is a promising technique to improve the
sensor network lifetime. In this paper, a Wireless Mobile Charger Excursion Optimization …