Decentralized active information acquisition: Theory and application to multi-robot SLAM

N Atanasov, J Le Ny, K Daniilidis… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of controlling mobile sensing systems to improve the
accuracy and efficiency of gathering information autonomously. It applies to scenarios such …

Anytime planning for decentralized multirobot active information gathering

B Schlotfeldt, D Thakur, N Atanasov… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter considers the problem of reducing uncertainty about a physical process of interest
by designing sensing trajectories for a team of robots. This active information gathering …

Graph neural networks for multi-robot active information acquisition

M Tzes, N Bousias, E Chatzipantazis… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the Multi-Robot Active In-formation Acquisition (AIA) problem, where a
team of mobile robots, communicating through an underlying graph, estimates a hidden …

[PDF][PDF] Asymptotically optimal planning for non-myopic multi-robot information gathering.

Y Kantaros, B Schlotfeldt, N Atanasov… - Robotics: Science and …, 2019 - academia.edu
This paper proposes a novel highly scalable sampling-based planning algorithm for multi-
robot active information acquisition tasks in complex environments. Active information …

Distributed algorithms for stochastic source seeking with mobile robot networks

NA Atanasov, J Le Ny… - Journal of …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Autonomous robot networks are an effective tool for monitoring large-scale environmental
fields. This paper proposes distributed control strategies for localizing the source of a noisy …

Autonomous localization of an unknown number of targets without data association using teams of mobile sensors

P Dames, V Kumar - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers situations in which a team of mobile sensor platforms autonomously
explores an environment to detect and localize an unknown number of targets. Individual …

Sampling-based planning for non-myopic multi-robot information gathering

Y Kantaros, B Schlotfeldt, N Atanasov, GJ Pappas - Autonomous Robots, 2021 - Springer
This paper proposes a novel highly scalable sampling-based planning algorithm for multi-
robot active information acquisition tasks in complex environments. Active information …

Robust adaptive coverage control for robotic sensor networks

M Schwager, MP Vitus, S Powers… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a distributed control algorithm to drive a group of robots to spread out
over an environment and provide adaptive sensor coverage of that environment. The robots …

An optimal control approach to the multi-agent persistent monitoring problem in two-dimensional spaces

X Lin, CG Cassandras - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the persistent monitoring problem in two-dimensional mission spaces where the
objective is to control the trajectories of multiple cooperating agents to minimize an …

Coordinated robot navigation via hierarchical clustering

O Arslan, DP Guralnik… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce the use of hierarchical clustering for relaxed deterministic coordination and
control of multiple robots. Traditionally, an unsupervised learning method, hierarchical …