We study two new informative path planning problems that are motivated by the use of aerial
and ground robots in precision agriculture. The first problem, termed sampling traveling …

Routing and path planning problems that involve spatial coverage have received increasing
attention in recent years in different application areas. Spatial coverage refers to the …

The need for efficient monitoring of spatio-temporal dynamics in large environmental
applications, such as the water quality monitoring in rivers and lakes, motivates the use of …

In many applications, one has to actively select among a set of expensive observations
before making an informed decision. For example, in environmental monitoring, we want to …

Abstract Purpose of Review The era of robotics-based environmental monitoring has given
rise to many interesting areas of research. A key challenge is that robotic platforms and their …

Autonomous mobile robots are increasingly employed to take measurements for
environmental monitoring, but planning informative, measurement‐rich paths through large …

In this paper we propose a novel approach to decentralised coordination, that is able to
efficiently compute solutions with a guaranteed approximation ratio. Our approach is based …

A great opportunity exists to fuse information from populations of privately-held sensors to
create useful sensing applications. For example, GPS devices, embedded in cellphones and …

Automatically building maps from sensor data is a necessary and fundamental skill for
mobile robots; as a result, considerable research attention has focused on the technical …

Many robotic path planning applications, such as search and rescue, involve uncertain
environments with complex dynamics that can be only partially observed. When selecting …