Collaborative multi-robot search and rescue: Planning, coordination, perception, and active vision

JP Queralta, J Taipalmaa, BC Pullinen, VK Sarker… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Collaborative multi-robot systems for search and rescue: Coordination and perception

JP Queralta, J Taipalmaa, BC Pullinen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
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 …

A sampling-based Bayesian approach for cooperative multiagent online search with resource constraints

H Xiao, R Cui, D Xu - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a cooperative multiagent search algorithm to solve the problem of
searching for a target on a 2-D plane under multiple constraints. A Bayesian framework is …

Tracking aquatic invaders: Autonomous robots for monitoring invasive fish

P Tokekar, E Branson, J Vander Hook… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Carp is a highly invasive bottom-feeding fish that pollutes and dominates lakes by releasing
harmful nutrients. Recently, biologists started studying the behavior of carp by tagging the …

Algorithms for cooperative active localization of static targets with mobile bearing sensors under communication constraints

J Vander Hook, P Tokekar, V Isler - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of actively locating a static target using mobile robots equipped with
bearing sensors. The goal is to reduce the uncertainty in the target's location to a value …

Sensor assignment algorithms to improve observability while tracking targets

L Zhou, P Tokekar - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study two sensor assignment problems for multitarget tracking with the goal
of improving the observability of the underlying estimator. We consider various measures of …

A ROS-based GNC architecture for autonomous surface vehicle based on a new multimission management paradigm

V D'Angelo, P Folino, M Lupia, G Gagliardi, G Cario… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the design and implementation of BAICal (Intelligent Autonomous Buoy
by the University of Calabria), an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) developed at the …

Stochastic tree search with useful cycles for patrolling problems

B Kartal, J Godoy, I Karamouzas… - 2015 IEEE international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An autonomous robot team can be employed for continuous and strategic coverage of
arbitrary environments for different missions. In this work, we propose an anytime approach …

Cautious greedy strategy for bearing‐only active localization: Analysis and field experiments

J Vander Hook, P Tokekar, V Isler - Journal of Field Robotics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We study the problem of optimally choosing bearing measurement locations for localizing a
stationary target in minimum time. The targets are transmitting radio tags, and bearing …

Gathering bearing data for target localization

H Bayram, J Vander Hook, V Isler - IEEE Robotics and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of gathering bearing data to localize targets. We start with a
commonly used notion of uncertainty based on geometric dilution of precision (GDOP) and …