Tiling robotics have been deployed in autonomous complete area coverage tasks such as
floor cleaning, building inspection, and maintenance, surface painting. One class of tiling …

Regular Ship hull maintenance is an essential for sustainability. The maintenance work of
ship hulls that involve human labor suffers from many shortcomings. Maintenance robots …

Optimizing the coverage path planning (CPP) in robotics has become essential to
accomplish efficient coverage applications. This work presents a novel approach to solve …

Reconfigurable robots have received broad research interest due to the high dexterity they
provide and the complex actions they could perform. Robots with reconfigurability are …

One of the essential attributes of a cleaning robot is to achieve complete area coverage.
Current commercial indoor cleaning robots have fixed morphology and are restricted to …

Tiling robots with fixed morphology face major challenges in terms of covering the cleaning
area and generating the optimal trajectory during navigation. Developing a self …

An adaptive genetic algorithm based on collision detection (AGACD) is proposed to solve
the problems of the basic genetic algorithm in the field of path planning, such as low …

Aircraft surface inspection includes detecting surface defects caused by corrosion and
cracks and stains from the oil spill, grease, dirt sediments, etc. In the conventional aircraft …

Routine cleaning of the corroded ship hulls in dry dock maintenance guarantees the smooth
operation of the shipping industry. Deploying the autonomous system to remove the …

One of the critical challenges in deploying the cleaning robots is the completion of covering
the entire area. Current tiling robots for area coverage have fixed forms and are limited to …