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A Generalized Voronoi Graph based Coverage Control Approach for Non-Convex Environment

Robotics 2026-03-11 v1

Abstract

To address the challenge of efficient coverage by multi-robot systems in non-convex regions with multiple obstacles, this paper proposes a coverage control method based on the Generalized Voronoi Graph (GVG), which has two phases: Load-Balancing Algorithm phase and Collaborative Coverage phase. In Load-Balancing Algorithm phase, the non-convex region is partitioned into multiple sub-regions based on GVG. Besides, a weighted load-balancing algorithm is developed, which considers the quality differences among sub-regions. By iteratively optimizing the robot allocation ratio, the number of robots in each sub-region is matched with the sub-region quality to achieve load balance. In Collaborative Coverage phase, each robot is controlled by a new controller to effectively coverage the region. The convergence of the method is proved and its performance is evaluated through simulations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.09596,
  title  = {A Generalized Voronoi Graph based Coverage Control Approach for Non-Convex Environment},
  author = {Zuyi Guo and Ronghao Zheng and Meiqin Liu and Senlin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09596},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures, published to ACC 2026

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:12:27.311Z