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 …

Active map** and robot exploration: A survey

I Lluvia, E Lazkano, A Ansuategi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simultaneous localization and map** responds to the problem of building a map of the
environment without any prior information and based on the data obtained from one or more …

Raptor: Robust and perception-aware trajectory replanning for quadrotor fast flight

B Zhou, J Pan, F Gao, S Shen - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in trajectory replanning have enabled quadrotor to navigate autonomously
in unknown environments. However, high-speed navigation still remains a significant …

Fuel: Fast uav exploration using incremental frontier structure and hierarchical planning

B Zhou, Y Zhang, X Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration is a fundamental problem for various applications of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). Existing methods, however, were demonstrated to insufficient …

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

J Delmerico, S Mintchev, A Giusti… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

An efficient sampling-based method for online informative path planning in unknown environments

L Schmid, M Pantic, R Khanna, L Ott… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to plan informative paths online is essential to robot autonomy. In particular,
sampling-based approaches are often used as they are capable of using arbitrary …

A self-rotating, single-actuated UAV with extended sensor field of view for autonomous navigation

N Chen, F Kong, W Xu, Y Cai, H Li, D He, Y Qin… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) rely heavily on visual sensors to perceive obstacles and
explore environments. Current UAVs are limited in both perception capability and task …

The voliro omniorientational hexacopter: An agile and maneuverable tiltable-rotor aerial vehicle

M Kamel, S Verling, O Elkhatib… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extending the maneuverability of multirotors promises to yield a considerable increase in
their scope of applications, such as carrying out more challenging inspection tasks and …

Dec-MCTS: Decentralized planning for multi-robot active perception

G Best, OM Cliff, T Patten, RR Mettu… - … International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a decentralized variant of Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) that is suitable for a
variety of tasks in multi-robot active perception. Our algorithm allows each robot to optimize …

Linear vs nonlinear mpc for trajectory tracking applied to rotary wing micro aerial vehicles

M Kamel, M Burri, R Siegwart - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2017 - Elsevier
Precise trajectory tracking is a crucial property for Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) to operate in
cluttered environment or under disturbances. In this paper we present a detailed comparison …