Connectivity preserving formation stabilization in an obstacle-cluttered environment in the presence of time-varying communication delays

SG Loizou, DG Lui, A Petrillo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical article addresses the formation stabilization problem for multiagent systems
(MASs) composed of dynamical agents moving within an obstacle-cluttered environment …

Collaborative multi-robot systems for search and rescue: Coordination and perception

JP Queralta, J Taipalmaa, BC Pullinen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Autonomous or teleoperated robots have been playing increasingly important roles in civil
applications in recent years. Across the different civil domains where robots can support …

Communications-aware robotics: Challenges and opportunities

DB Licea, G Silano, M Ghogho… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has
seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and society. Many of these …

Connectivity maintenance: Global and optimized approach through control barrier functions

B Capelli, L Sabattini - 2020 IEEE International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connectivity maintenance is an essential aspect to consider while controlling a multi-robot
system. In general, a multi-robot system should be connected to obtain a certain common …

Multi-robot cooperative socially-aware navigation using multi-agent reinforcement learning

W Wang, L Mao, R Wang, BC Min - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In public spaces shared with humans, ensuring multi-robot systems navigate without
collisions while respecting social norms is challenging, particularly with limited …

Task allocation and trajectory planning for multiple agents in the presence of obstacle and connectivity constraints with mixed‐integer linear programming

RJM Afonso, MROA Maximo… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article addresses the problem of maneuvering multiple agents that must visit a number
of target sets, while enforcing connectivity constraints and avoiding obstacle as well as …

Pound: A multi-master ROS node for reducing delay and jitter in wireless multi-robot networks

D Tardioli, R Parasuraman, P Ögren - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular and widely used software
framework for building robotics systems. With the growth of its popularity, it has started to be …

Voronoi-based coverage control with connectivity maintenance for robotic sensor networks

W Luo, K Sycara - … International Symposium on Multi-Robot and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of Voronoi-based coverage control for multi-robot
sensor networks with connectivity constraints, where a team of mobile robots spread out …

Robust area coverage with connectivity maintenance

L Siligardi, J Panerati, M Kaufmann… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot swarms herald the ability to solve complex tasks using a large collection of simple
devices. However, engineering a robotic swarm is far from trivial, with a major hurdle being …

A comparison between decentralized local and global methods for connectivity maintenance of multi-robot networks

K Khateri, M Pourgholi, M Montazeri… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Range limitation of communication links among robots in a multi-robot network, mixed with
the mobility of the robots, creates a potential threat of disconnection of the communication …