Review of autonomous path planning algorithms for mobile robots

H Qin, S Shao, T Wang, X Yu, Y Jiang, Z Cao - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mobile robots, including ground robots, underwater robots, and unmanned aerial vehicles,
play an increasingly important role in people's work and lives. Path planning and obstacle …

Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild

X Zhou, X Wen, Z Wang, Y Gao, H Li, Q Wang… - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
Aerial robots are widely deployed, but highly cluttered environments such as dense forests
remain inaccessible to drones and even more so to swarms of drones. In these scenarios …

Design and experimental validation of deep reinforcement learning-based fast trajectory planning and control for mobile robot in unknown environment

R Chai, H Niu, J Carrasco, F Arvin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with the problem of planning optimal maneuver trajectories and
guiding the mobile robot toward target positions in uncertain environments for exploration …

Geometrically constrained trajectory optimization for multicopters

Z Wang, X Zhou, C Xu, F Gao - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present an optimization-based framework for multicopter trajectory
planning subject to geometrical configuration constraints and user-defined dynamic …

Autonomous navigation for eVTOL: Review and future perspectives

H Wei, B Lou, Z Zhang, B Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey paper explores the emergent domain of electric vertical takeoff and landing
vehicles (eVTOLs), emphasizing the critical role of autonomous navigation capabilities …

MADER: Trajectory planner in multiagent and dynamic environments

J Tordesillas, JP How - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents MADER, a 3-D decentralized and asynchronous trajectory planner for
UAVs that generates collision-free trajectories in environments with static obstacles …

Autonomous drone racing: A survey

D Hanover, A Loquercio, L Bauersfeld… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last decade, the use of autonomous drone systems for surveying, search and
rescue, or last-mile delivery has increased exponentially. With the rise of these applications …

Ego-swarm: A fully autonomous and decentralized quadrotor swarm system in cluttered environments

X Zhou, J Zhu, H Zhou, C Xu… - 2021 IEEE international …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a decentralized and asynchronous systematic solution for multi-robot
autonomous navigation in unknown obstacle-rich scenes using merely onboard resources …

Large-scale autonomous flight with real-time semantic slam under dense forest canopy

X Liu, GV Nardari, F Cladera, Y Tao… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantic maps represent the environment using a set of semantically meaningful objects.
This representation is storage-efficient, less ambiguous, and more informative, thus …

Unmanned aerial vehicle mediated drug delivery for first aid

T Sheng, R Jin, C Yang, K Qiu, M Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Timely administration of key medications toward patients with sudden diseases is critical to
saving lives. However, slow transport of first‐aid therapeutics and the potential absence of …