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Multi-robot collaboration for target tracking in adversarial environments poses significant challenges, including system failures, dynamic priority shifts, and other unpredictable factors. These challenges become even more pronounced when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Peihan Li , Yuwei Wu , Jiazhen Liu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou

Heterogeneous multi-robot systems are advantageous for operations in unknown environments because functionally specialised robots can gather environmental information, while others perform tasks. We define this decomposition as the…

Multi robot systems have the potential to be utilized in a variety of applications. In most of the previous works, the trajectory generation for multi robot systems is implemented in known environments. To overcome that we present an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Vijay Arvindh , Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Sivanathan K

We present a control framework for achieving encirclement of a target moving in 3D using a multi-robot system. Three variations of a basic control strategy are proposed for different versions of the encirclement problem, and their…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Antonio Franchi , Paolo Stegagno , Giuseppe Oriolo

Collaborative localization is an essential capability for a team of robots such as connected vehicles to collaboratively estimate object locations from multiple perspectives with reliant cooperation. To enable collaborative localization,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Peng Gao , Brian Reily , Rui Guo , Hongsheng Lu , Qingzhao Zhu , Hao Zhang

Effective communication is key to successful, decentralized, multi-robot path planning. Yet, it is far from obvious what information is crucial to the task at hand, and how and when it must be shared among robots. To side-step these issues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Qingbiao Li , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro , Amanda Prorok

Among the abilities that autonomous mobile robots should exhibit, map building and localization are definitely recognized as fundamental. Consequently, countless algorithms for solving the Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Matteo Luperto , Valerio Castelli , Francesco Amigoni

Effective multi-robot teams require the ability to move to goals in complex environments in order to address real-world applications such as search and rescue. Multi-robot teams should be able to operate in a completely decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Brian Reily , Terran Mott , Hao Zhang

The multi-robot adaptive sampling problem aims at finding trajectories for a team of robots to efficiently sample the phenomenon of interest within a given endurance budget of the robots. In this paper, we propose a robust and scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Lishuo Pan , Sandeep Manjanna , M. Ani Hsieh

Planning for multi-robot teams in complex environments is a challenging problem, especially when these teams must coordinate to accomplish a common objective. In general, optimal solutions to these planning problems are computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Cora A. Dimmig , Kevin C. Wolfe , Joseph Moore

We present the design and implementation of a decentralised, heterogeneous multi-robot system for performing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) in an unknown environment. The team consists of functionally specialised robots…

Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical area of research within robotics and computer vision, focusing on the simultaneous localization of robotic systems and associating semantic information to construct the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Haolan Zhang , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

Deploying a team of robots that can carefully coordinate their actions can make the entire system robust to individual failures. In this report, we review recent algorithmic development in making multi-robot systems robust to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

We consider the problem of finding distributed controllers for large networks of mobile robots with interacting dynamics and sparsely available communications. Our approach is to learn local controllers that require only local information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ekaterina Tolstaya , Fernando Gama , James Paulos , George Pappas , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro

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

Unlabeled motion planning involves assigning a set of robots to target locations while ensuring collision avoidance, aiming to minimize the total distance traveled. The problem forms an essential building block for multi-robot systems in…

Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM) enables multiple agents to work together in mapping unknown environments while simultaneously estimating their own positions. This approach enhances robustness, scalability, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Joshua Bird , Jan Blumenkamp , Amanda Prorok

The factor graph decentralized data fusion (FG-DDF) framework was developed for the analysis and exploitation of conditional independence in {heterogeneous Bayesian decentralized fusion problems, in which robots update and fuse pdfs over…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ofer Dagan , Tycho L. Cinquini , Nisar R. Ahmed

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most essential techniques in many real-world robotic applications. The assumption of static environments is common in most SLAM algorithms, which however, is not the case for most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Han Wang , Jing Ying Ko , Lihua Xie

Trajectory planning for multiple robots in shared environments is a challenging problem especially when there is limited communication available or no central entity. In this article, we present Real-time planning using Linear Spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Wolfgang Hönig , Nora Ayanian