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This research investigates decentralized control of mobile robots specifically for coverage problems. There are different approaches associated with decentralized control strategy for coverage control problems. We perform a comparative…
This paper mainly studies the localization and mapping of range sensing robots in the confidence-rich map (CRM) and then extends it to provide a full state estimate for information-theoretic exploration. Most previous works about active…
In this paper, we present algorithms to identify environmental hotspots using mobile sensors. We examine two approaches: one involving a single robot and another using multiple robots coordinated through a decentralized robot system. We…
This paper presents a distributed scalable multi-robot planning algorithm for informed sampling of quasistatic spatial fields. We address the problem of efficient data collection using multiple autonomous vehicles and consider the effects…
Network localization is capable of providing accurate and ubiquitous position information for numerous wireless applications. This paper studies the accuracy of cooperative network localization in large-scale wireless networks. Based on a…
We consider the problem of navigating a mobile robot towards a target in an unknown environment that is endowed with visual sensors, where neither the robot nor the sensors have access to global positioning information and only use…
We investigate the algorithmic problem of uniformly dispersing a swarm of robots in an unknown, gridlike environment. In this setting, our goal is to study the relationships between performance metrics and robot capabilities. We introduce a…
Inspired by biological swarms, robotic swarms are envisioned to solve real-world problems that are difficult for individual agents. Biological swarms can achieve collective intelligence based on local interactions and simple rules; however,…
Given an underlying graph, we consider the following \emph{dynamics}: Initially, each node locally chooses a value in $\{-1,1\}$, uniformly at random and independently of other nodes. Then, in each consecutive round, every node updates its…
We design a distributed feedback optimization strategy, embedded into a modular ROS 2 control architecture, which allows a team of heterogeneous robots to cooperatively monitor and encircle a target while patrolling points of interest.…
The vast majority of existing Distributed Computing literature about mobile robotic swarms considers computability issues: characterizing the set of system hypotheses that enables problem solvability. By contrast, the focus of this work is…
Many modern simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques rely on sparse landmark-based maps due to their real-time performance. However, these techniques frequently assert that these landmarks are fixed in position over time,…
Robot swarms offer significant potential for inspecting diverse infrastructure, ranging from bridges to space stations. However, effective inspection requires accurate robot localization, which demands substantial computational resources…
Mobile robots have the capability to work in real-time autonomously. Autonomous behavior is strictly dependent on knowing the position of the mobile robot. The positioning of a mobile robot in an indoor area is a difficult task for only one…
We consider the uncertain multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) problem with cooperative localization (CL-MRMP), under both motion and measurement noise, where each robot can act as a sensor for its nearby teammates. We formalize CL-MRMP as a…
The energy-efficient trip allocation of mobile robots employing differential drives for data retrieval from stationary sensor locations is the scope of this article. Given a team of robots and a set of targets (wireless sensor nodes), the…
Patrolling with multiple robots offers efficient surveillance to detect and manage undesired situations. This necessitates improved patrol efficiency and operator situation awareness at base stations. Enhanced situation awareness enables…
This work introduces a scalable filtering algorithm for multi-agent traffic estimation. Large-scale networks are spatially partitioned into overlapping road sections. The traffic dynamics of each section is given by the switching mode model…
The paper deals with decentralized state estimation for spatially distributed systems described by linear partial differential equations from discrete in-space-and-time noisy measurements provided by sensors deployed over the spatial domain…
This paper considers the problem to plan mobile sensor networks for target localization task in GPS-denied environments. Most researches on mobile sensor networks assume that the states of the sensing agents are precisely known during their…