A survey on recent progress in control of swarm systems

B Zhu, L **e, D Han, X Meng, R Teo - Science China Information Sciences, 2017 - Springer
It has been witnessed that swarm systems are superior to individual agents in performing
complicated tasks. In recent years, new results in some branches of control for swarm …

Dynamic frontier-led swarming: Multi-robot repeated coverage in dynamic environments

VP Tran, MA Garratt, K Kasmarik… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A common assumption of coverage path planning research is a static environment. Such
environments require only a single visit to each area to achieve coverage. However, some …

Distributed coverage control for concave areas by a heterogeneous robot–swarm with visibility sensing constraints

Y Kantaros, M Thanou, A Tzes - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
This article addresses the coverage problem of non-convex environments by a mobile multi-
robot system characterized by omnidirectional 'field of view'sensing capabilities. The mobile …

Mobile sensor networks and control: Adaptive sampling of spatiotemporal processes

DA Paley, A Wolek - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The control of mobile sensor networks uses sensor measurements to update a model of an
unknown or estimated process, which in turn guides the collection of subsequent …

Coverage control for heterogeneous mobile sensor networks on a circle

C Song, L Liu, G Feng, S Xu - Automatica, 2016 - Elsevier
The coverage control problem for a network of heterogeneous mobile sensors with first-
order dynamics is addressed in this paper. The goal of the problem is to minimize a …

Coverage control for mobile sensor networks with limited communication ranges on a circle

C Song, Y Fan - Automatica, 2018 - Elsevier
The coverage control problem for mobile sensor networks with limited communication
ranges is addressed in this paper. The goal of the problem is to minimize a coverage cost …

Sampling-based event-triggered consensus for multi-agent systems

Y Fan, Y Yang, Y Zhang - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
This work considers the event-based consensus algorithms for multi-agent systems with
periodic sampling schemes. An event-triggered consensus algorithm using sampled states …

Distributed coverage estimation and control for multirobot persistent tasks

JM Palacios-Gasós, E Montijano… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the problem of persistently covering an environment with a group
of mobile robots. In contrast to traditional coverage, in our scenario the coverage level of the …

[HTML][HTML] A novel cooperative path planning for multi-robot persistent coverage with obstacles and coverage period constraints

G Sun, R Zhou, B Di, Z Dong, Y Wang - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a multi-robot persistent coverage of the region of interest is considered, where
persistent coverage and cooperative coverage are addressed simultaneously. Previous …

Optimal control for multi-agent persistent monitoring

C Song, L Liu, G Feng, S Xu - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
The problem of persistent monitoring using a network of mobile agents is considered in this
paper, where the goal is to drive the uncertainty of all targets to zero and patrol the whole …