Abstract Purpose of Review Robotic patrolling aims at protecting a physical environment by
deploying a team of one or more autonomous mobile robots in it. A key problem in this …

Search and rescue (SAR) operations can take significant advantage from supporting
autonomous or teleoperated robots and multi-robot systems. These can aid in mapping and …

Operations and maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) are challenging, with
manual operators constantly exposed to hazardous environments. Due to the high task …

Place recognition in 3D data is a challenging task that has been commonly approached by
adapting image-based solutions. Methods based on local features suffer from ambiguity and …

The collaboration of heterogeneous robots is a hot topic in multi-intelligent agents,
characterized by wide-area coverage and high environmental adaptability. Compared with a …

Autonomous or teleoperated robots have been playing increasingly important roles in civil
applications in recent years. Across the different civil domains where robots can support …

Rescue vessels are the main actors in maritime safety and rescue operations. At the same
time, aerial drones bring a significant advantage into this scenario. This paper presents the …

Road network persistent surveillance requires a swarm of unmanned ground vehicles
(UGVs) to repeatedly surveil a sequence of places called viewpoints on a road network and …

High-level task planning under adversarial environments is one of the central problems in
the development of autonomous systems such as unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) …

This paper addresses the problem of road network cooperative persistent surveillance
algorithm suitable for online planning. A diffusion-based reactive cooperative path planing …