Design and technical development of wall-climbing robots: A review

Y Fang, S Wang, Q Bi, D Cui, C Yan - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Once working at heights is dangerous, it is a significant accident. These accidents brought
substantial economic losses and caused a large number of casualties. Therefore, it is …

Applications of Reinforcement Learning for maintenance of engineering systems: A review

AP Marugán - Advances in Engineering Software, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, modern engineering systems require sophisticated maintenance strategies to
ensure their correct performance. Maintenance has become one of the most important tasks …

Hybrid fuzzy AHP–TOPSIS approach to prioritizing solutions for inverse reinforcement learning

V Kukreja - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Springer
Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques nurture building up solutions for sequential
decision-making problems under uncertainty and ambiguity. RL has agents with a reward …

Toward energy-efficient online Complete Coverage Path Planning of a ship hull maintenance robot based on Glasius Bio-inspired Neural Network

MAVJ Muthugala, SMBP Samarakoon… - Expert systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Reinforcement learning-based complete area coverage path planning for a modified hTrihex robot

KGS Apuroop, AV Le, MR Elara, BJ Sheu - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Review of the decision support methods used in optimizing ship hulls towards improving energy efficiency

M Tadros, M Ventura, C Guedes Soares - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a review of the different methods and techniques used to optimize ship
hulls over the last six years (2017–2022). This review shows the different percentages of …

Machine learning for naval architecture, ocean and marine engineering

JP Panda - Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning (ML)-based techniques have found significant impact in many
fields of engineering and sciences, where data-sets are available from experiments and …

Coverage path planning using reinforcement learning-based TSP for hTetran—A polyabolo-inspired self-reconfigurable tiling robot

AV Le, P Veerajagadheswar, P Thiha Kyaw, MR Elara… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Complete coverage path planning for reconfigurable omni-directional mobile robots with varying width using gbnn (n)

L Yi, AYS Wan, AV Le, AA Hayat, QR Tang… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-reconfigurable robots which can change their footprint's width have demonstrated the
ability to access confined areas. To enhance the efficiency of area coverage in complete …

Review of underwater adsorptive-operating robots: Design and application

C Yang, S Liu, H Su, L Zhang, Q Xia, Y Chen - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The maintenance of underwater infrastructures and equipment remains dominated by
manual operation, resulting in high costs and safety concerns. Recent advances in …