There has been an increasing interest in researching, developing and deploying multi-robot
systems. This has been driven mainly by: the maturity of the practical deployment of a single …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in civilian and military
applications due to their high autonomy and strong adaptability. Although UAVs can achieve …

Waste management scene is in urgent need of robotic waste sorter. Nails and screws, as
part of the construction waste scene, are hard to be found and can therefore, cause damage …

The problem of determining a collision free path within a region is an important area of
research in robotics. One significant aspect of this problem is coverage path planning, which …

Collaborative coverage for target search using a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
has received increasing attention in recent years. However, the design of distributed control …

Coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a core task for many
services and applications including search and rescue, precision agriculture, infrastructure …

Extensive studies regarding complete coverage problems have been conducted, but a few
tackle scenarios where the mobile robot is equipped with reconfigurable modules. The …

Many scholars have proposed different single-robot coverage path planning (SCPP) and
multi-robot coverage path planning (MCPP) algorithms to solve the coverage path planning …

With the increasing complexity of the search environment, it is particularly important for
multiunmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve a safe and efficient search for a dynamic …

The paper presents a novel algorithmic approach that allows to tackle in a common
framework the problems of area decomposition, partition and coverage for multiple …