A comprehensive review of coverage path planning in robotics using classical and heuristic algorithms

CS Tan, R Mohd-Mokhtar, MR Arshad - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The small battery capacities of the mobile robot and the un-optimized planning efficiency of
the industrial robot bottlenecked the time efficiency and productivity rate of coverage tasks in …

A Survey on the autonomous exploration of confined subterranean spaces: Perspectives from real-word and industrial robotic deployments

H Azpúrua, M Saboia, GM Freitas, L Clark… - Robotics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Confined and subterranean areas are common in many civilian and industrial sites,
although they are hazardous for humans given the presence of noxious gases, extreme …

MR-TopoMap: Multi-robot exploration based on topological map in communication restricted environment

Z Zhang, J Yu, J Tang, Y Xu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot exploration in unknown environments is a fundamental task for a multi-robot
system, involving inter-robot communication through messages among the robots. However …

Smmr-explore: Submap-based multi-robot exploration system with multi-robot multi-target potential field exploration method

J Yu, J Tong, Y Xu, Z Xu, H Dong… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative exploration in an unknown environment without external positioning under
limited communication is an essential task for multi-robot applications. For inter-robot …

Deep reinforcement learning supervised autonomous exploration in office environments

D Zhu, T Li, D Ho, C Wang… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploration region selection is an essential decision making process in autonomous robot
exploration task. While a majority of greedy methods are proposed to deal with this problem …

Houseexpo: A large-scale 2d indoor layout dataset for learning-based algorithms on mobile robots

T Li, D Ho, C Li, D Zhu, C Wang… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As one of the most promising areas, mobile robots draw much attention these years. Current
work in this field is often evaluated in a few manually designed scenarios, due to the lack of …

Autonomous robotic exploration by incremental road map construction

C Wang, W Chi, Y Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel path planning framework for autonomous exploration in
unknown environments using a mobile robot. A graph structure is incrementally constructed …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal frontier-based autonomous exploration in unconstructed environment using RGB-D sensor

L Lu, C Redondo, P Campoy - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aerial robots are widely used in search and rescue applications because of their small size
and high maneuvering. However, designing an autonomous exploration algorithm is still a …

Information-driven fast marching autonomous exploration with aerial robots

P Zhong, B Chen, S Lu, X Meng… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration in unknown environments is a fundamental task of Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). To choose exploration goals wisely, we propose an information …

Efficient autonomous exploration with incrementally built topological map in 3-D environments

C Wang, H Ma, W Chen, L Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous 3-D exploration with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is increasingly
prevalent for environment monitoring without human intervention. In this article, we present a …