Information correlated Lévy walk exploration and distributed mapping using a swarm of robots

RK Ramachandran, Z Kakish… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a novel distributed method for constructing an occupancy grid map
of an unknown environment using a swarm of robots with global localization capabilities and …

Occupancy Grid Mapping via Resource-Constrained Robotic Swarms: A Collaborative Exploration Strategy

A Rogers, K Eshaghi, G Nejat, B Benhabib - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper addresses the problem of building an occupancy grid map of an unknown
environment using a swarm comprising resource-constrained robots, ie, robots with limited …

A probabilistic approach to automated construction of topological maps using a stochastic robotic swarm

RK Ramachandran, S Wilson… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel procedure for constructing a topological map of an
unknown environment from data collected by a swarm of robots with limited sensing …

Exploration, mapping and scalar field estimation using a swarm of resource-constrained robots

RK Ramachandran - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Robotic swarms can potentially perform complicated tasks such as exploration and mapping
at large space and time scales in a parallel and robust fashion. This thesis presents …

Automated construction of metric maps using a stochastic robotic swarm leveraging received signal strength

RK Ramachandran, S Berman - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05392, 2019 - arxiv.org
In this work, we present a novel automated procedure for constructing a metric map of an
unknown domain with obstacles using uncertain position data collected by a swarm of …