Voronoi-based multi-robot autonomous exploration in unknown environments via deep reinforcement learning

J Hu, H Niu, J Carrasco, B Lennox… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration is an important application of multi-vehicle systems, where a team
of networked robots are coordinated to explore an unknown environment collaboratively …

RTFNet: RGB-thermal fusion network for semantic segmentation of urban scenes

Y Sun, W Zuo, M Liu - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantic segmentation is a fundamental capability for autonomous vehicles. With the
advancements of deep learning technologies, many effective semantic segmentation …

Exploration and mapping with groups of robots: Recent trends

A Quattrini Li - Current Robotics Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Multi-robot exploration—ie, the problem of mapping unknown
features of an environment—is fundamental in many tasks, including search and rescue …

Autonomous live working robot navigation with real‐time detection and motion planning system on distribution line

H Zhao, C Wang, R Guo, X Rong, J Guo, Q Yang… - High …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, an autonomous robot navigation system is designed for live working on
distribution line. The developed system features a real‐time detection and motion planning …

Smmr-explore: Submap-based multi-robot exploration system with multi-robot multi-target potential field exploration method

J Yu, J Tong, Y Xu, Z Xu, H Dong… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative exploration in an unknown environment without external positioning under
limited communication is an essential task for multi-robot applications. For inter-robot …

Deep reinforcement learning for real-time assembly planning in robot-based prefabricated construction

A Zhu, T Dai, G Xu, P Pauwels… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The adoption of robotics is promising to improve the efficiency, quality, and safety of
prefabricated construction. Besides technologies that improve the capability of a single …

Deep learning-based complete coverage path planning with re-joint and obstacle fusion paradigm

T Lei, C Luo, GE Jan, Z Bi - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With the introduction of autonomy into the precision agriculture process, environmental
exploration, disaster response, and other fields, one of the global demands is to navigate …

Fast active aerial exploration for traversable path finding of ground robots in unknown environments

S Zhang, X Zhang, T Li, J Yuan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes an autonomous aerial exploration framework for traversable path
finding of ground robots in unknown environments to achieve a fast response in search and …

Vision-based trajectory planning via imitation learning for autonomous vehicles

P Cai, Y Sun, Y Chen, M Liu - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable trajectory planning like human drivers in real-world dynamic urban environments is
a critical capability for autonomous driving. To this end, we develop a vision and imitation …

A novel informative autonomous exploration strategy with uniform sampling for quadrotors

X Zhang, Y Chu, Y Liu, X Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel informative autonomous exploration strategy with uniform sampling is
proposed to efficiently reduce the unknown volume of 3-D environments and provide an …