Multi-robot information gathering for precision agriculture: Current state, scope, and challenges

A Dutta, S Roy, OP Kreidl, L Bölöni - Ieee Access, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precision agriculture is the collection of hardware and software technologies that allow a
farmer to make informed, differentiated decisions regarding agricultural operations such as …

Multi-robot persistent surveillance with connectivity constraints

J Scherer, B Rinner - IEEE Access, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robots, especially unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are of increasing interest for
surveillance and disaster response scenarios. We consider the problem of multi-robot …

A2-UAV: Application-Aware Content and Network Optimization of Edge-Assisted UAV Systems

A Coletta, F Giorgi, G Maselli, M Prata… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To perform advanced surveillance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require the execution
of edge-assisted computer vision (CV) tasks. In multi-hop UAV networks, the successful …

Behavior mixing with minimum global and subgroup connectivity maintenance for large-scale multi-robot systems

W Luo, S Yi, K Sycara - 2020 IEEE International Conference on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many cases the multi-robot systems are desired to execute simultaneously multiple
behaviors with different controllers, and sequences of behaviors in real time, which we call …

Minimally constrained multi-robot coordination with line-of-sight connectivity maintenance

Y Yang, Y Lyu, W Luo - 2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider a team of mobile robots executing simultaneously multiple
behaviors by different subgroups, while maintaining global and subgroup line-of-sight (LOS) …

Relink: Real-time line-of-sight-based deployment framework of multi-robot for maintaining a communication network

L **a, B Deng, J Pan, X Zhang, P Duan… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we study the problem of using mobile robots as relay nodes to keep moving
clients and a fixed base station connected. Some applications, such as exploration and …

Optimal redeployment of multirobot teams for communication maintenance

J Banfi, N Basilico, S Carpin - 2018 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of maintaining and restoring connectivity among a set
of agents (humans or robots) by incrementally redeploying a team of mobile robots acting as …

Complexity of planning for connected agents in a partially known environment

A Queffelec, O Sankur, F Schwarzentruber - Theoretical Computer Science, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Connected Multi-Agent Path Finding (CMAPF) problem asks for a plan to move
a group of agents in a graph while respecting a connectivity constraint. We study a …

Complexity of planning for connected agents

T Charrier, A Queffelec, O Sankur… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2020‏ - Springer
We study a variant of the multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem in which the group of
agents are required to stay connected with a supervising base station throughout the …

[HTML][HTML] A 2-UAV: Application-Aware resilient edge-assisted UAV networks

A Coletta, F Giorgi, G Maselli, M Prata, D Silvestri… - Computer Networks, 2025‏ - Elsevier
During advanced surveillance missions, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) usually require
the execution of edge-assisted computer vision (CV) tasks. In multi-hop UAV networks, the …