Abstract Purpose of Review This review summarizes the broad roles that communication
formats and technologies have played in enabling multi-robot systems. We approach this …

Artificial intelligence has undergone immense growth and maturation in recent years, though
autonomous systems have traditionally struggled when fielded in diverse and previously …

The underground building environment plays an increasingly important role in the
construction of modern cities. To deal with possible fires, collapses, and so on, in …

Emerging applications, such as smart factories and fleets of drones, increasingly rely on
sharing time-sensitive information for monitoring and control. In such application domains, it …

This paper presents a new 3D map building technique using a combination of 2D SLAM and
3D objects that can be implemented on relatively low-cost hardware in real-time. Recently …

Emerging applications, such as smart factories and fleets of drones, increasingly rely on
sharing time-sensitive information for monitoring and control. In such application domains, it …

To meet the needs of drilling rescue, a variable structure detection robot for underground
rescue was designed for the motion requirements of a small crawler robot in underground …

Lava tubes on Moon and Mars are of significant interest as potential sites for human habitats
and for finding traces of life in the sheltered environments they provide. Robotic operations …

This paper presents a robot control interface with multi-bandwidth communication. Mobile
robots are often deployed for ground exploration missions to assist humans in dangerous …

At present, lava tubes on the Moon and Mars have been left wholly unexplored. There are
many aspects of subterranean exploration that pose additional challenges over surface …