A comprehensive review of coverage path planning in robotics using classical and heuristic algorithms

CS Tan, R Mohd-Mokhtar, MR Arshad - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The small battery capacities of the mobile robot and the un-optimized planning efficiency of
the industrial robot bottlenecked the time efficiency and productivity rate of coverage tasks in …

Optimal guidance track generation for precision agriculture: A review of coverage path planning techniques

M Höffmann, S Patel, C Büskens - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Complete Coverage Path Planning (CCPP) problem is a subfield of industrial
motion planning that has applications in various domains, ranging from mobile robotics to …

Optimal Coverage Path Planning for Agricultural Vehicles with Curvature Constraints

M Höffmann, S Patel, C Büskens - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Complete coverage path planning (CCPP) is vital in mobile robot applications. Optimizing
CCPP is particularly significant in precision agriculture, where it enhances resource …

Area-coverage planning for spray-based surface disinfection with a mobile manipulator

S Thakar, RK Malhan, PM Bhatt, SK Gupta - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of robots has significantly increased to fight highly contagious diseases like SARS-
COV-2, Ebola, MERS, and others. One of the important applications of robots to fight such …

End-to-end Reinforcement Learning for Online Coverage Path Planning in Unknown Environments

A Jonnarth, J Zhao, M Felsberg - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16978, 2023 - arxiv.org
Coverage path planning is the problem of finding the shortest path that covers the entire free
space of a given confined area, with applications ranging from robotic lawn mowing and …

Planning for mobile manipulation

S Thakar - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Mobile manipulators are essentially robotic arms that can move around and hence provide
flexibility in the kinds of tasks they can do. This significantly reduces down-time of such …