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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:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zuyi Guo , Ronghao Zheng , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang

Contemporary approaches to perception, planning, estimation, and control have allowed robots to operate robustly as our remote surrogates in uncertain, unstructured environments. This progress now creates an opportunity for robots to…

We study the \textit{min-sum uniform coverage} problem for a swarm of $n$ mobile robots on a given finite line segment and on a circle having finite positive radius, where the circle is given as an input. The robots must coordinate their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Animesh Maiti , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Subhash Bhagat , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

In this paper, we develop a distributed intermittent communication and task planning framework for mobile robot teams. The goal of the robots is to accomplish complex tasks, captured by local Linear Temporal Logic formulas, and share the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yiannis Kantaros , Meng Guo , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper considers the problem of online multi-robot motion planning with general nonlinear dynamics subject to unknown external disturbances. We propose dSLAP, a distributed safe learning and planning framework that allows the robots to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Zhenyuan Yuan , Minghui Zhu

3D occupancy prediction enables the robots to obtain spatial fine-grained geometry and semantics of the surrounding scene, and has become an essential task for embodied perception. Existing methods based on 3D Gaussians instead of dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhang Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Wei Cui , Shuai Shi , Yijie Guo , Gang Han , Wen Zhao , Hengle Ren , Renjing Xu , Jian Tang

Multi-robot decision-making is the process where multiple robots coordinate actions. In this paper, we aim for efficient and effective multi-robot decision-making despite the robots' limited on-board resources and the often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

Multi-robot systems are an efficient method to explore and map an unknown environment. The simulataneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm is common for single robot systems, however multiple robots can share respective map data in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Henry Fielding Cappel

This paper presents a novel planning method that achieves navigation of multi-robot formations in cluttered environments, while maintaining the formation throughout the robots motion. The method utilises a decentralised approach to find…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Jeppe Heini Mikkelsen , Matteo Fumagalli

This paper presents a novel dynamic coverage control algorithm allowing a group of robots to track an optimal-deployment configuration for arbitrary time-varying density functions. Building on singular perturbation theory, the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Brandon Bao , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

We consider a team of heterogeneous robots which are deployed within a common workspace to gather different types of data. The robots have different roles due to different capabilities: some gather data from the workspace (source robots)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Meng Guo , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper considers the problem of decentralized goal assignment and trajectory generation for multi-robot networks when only local communication is available, and proposes an approach based on methods related to switched systems and set…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Dimitra Panagou , Matthew Turpin , Vijay Kumar

This paper proposes a cooperative environmental learning algorithm working in a fully distributed manner. A multi-robot system is more effective for exploration tasks than a single robot, but it involves the following challenges: 1) online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Dohyun Jang , Jaehyun Yoo , Clark Youngdong Son , H. Jin Kim

One of the goals of active information acquisition using multi-robot teams is to keep the relative uncertainty in each region at the same level to maintain identical acquisition quality (e.g., consistent target detection) in all the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Benjamin Wong , Aaron Weber , Mohamed M. Safwat , Santosh Devasia , Ashis G. Banerjee

In this work, it is presented the development of a novel distributed algorithm performing robotic coverage, clustering and dispatch around an event in static-obstacle structured environments without relying on metric information.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Marco Fabris , Angelo Cenedese

We consider the problem of distributed multi-task learning, where each machine learns a separate, but related, task. Specifically, each machine learns a linear predictor in high-dimensional space,where all tasks share the same small…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-05 Jialei Wang , Mladen Kolar , Nathan Srebro

Given a set of co-located mobile robots in an unknown anonymous graph, the robots must relocate themselves in distinct graph nodes to solve the dispersion problem. In this paper, we consider the dispersion problem for silent robots…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Bibhuti Das , Barun Gorain , Kaushik Mondal , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya , Supantha Pandit

We consider task allocation for multi-object transport using a multi-robot system, in which each robot selects one object among multiple objects with different and unknown weights. The existing centralized methods assume the number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Tadashi Odashima , Keisuke Takeshita , Takamitsu Matsubara

We show that a distributed network of robots or other devices which make measurements of each other can collaborate to globally localise via efficient ad-hoc peer to peer communication. Our Robot Web solution is based on Gaussian Belief…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Riku Murai , Joseph Ortiz , Sajad Saeedi , Paul H. J. Kelly , Andrew J. Davison

In this work, we address the problem of multi-robot adaptive coverage, where teams of robots perform dynamic sampling by continuously adjusting their positions to collect data in an environment. This task can be challenging, particularly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Thales Costa Silva , Nora Ayanian