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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

The problem of multi-robot target tracking asks for actively planning the joint motion of robots to track targets. In this paper, we focus on such target tracking problems in adversarial environments, where attacks or failures may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Lifeng Zhou , Vijay Kumar

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 setting where a team of robots is tasked with tracking multiple targets with the following property: approaching the targets enables more accurate target position estimation, but also increases the risk of sensor failures.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jiazhen Liu , Lifeng Zhou , Ragesh Ramachandran , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar

Multi-robot coordination is crucial for autonomous systems, yet real-world deployments often encounter various failures. These include both temporary and permanent disruptions in sensing and communication, which can significantly degrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Peihan Li , Jiazhen Liu , Yuwei Wu , Lifeng Zhou

The problem of target tracking with multiple robots consists of actively planning the motion of the robots to track the targets. A major challenge for practical deployments is to make the robots resilient to failures. In particular, robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Lifeng Zhou , Vasileios Tzoumas , George J. Pappas , Pratap Tokekar

Multi robot teams composed by ground and aerial vehicles have gained attention during the last years. We present a scenario where both types of robots must monitor the same area from different view points. In this paper we propose two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Javier Tardós , Rosario Aragues , Carlos Sagüés , Carlos Rubio

Persistent monitoring using robot teams is of interest in fields such as security, environmental monitoring, and disaster recovery. Performing such monitoring in a fully on-line decentralised fashion has significant potential advantages for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 James C. Ward , Arthur Richards , Edmund R. Hunt

In multi-target tracking, sensor control involves dynamically configuring sensors to achieve improved tracking performance. Many of these techniques focus on sensors with memoryless states (e.g., waveform adaptation, beam scheduling, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Donald J. Bucci , Pramod K. Varshney

We consider a scenario where a team of robots with heterogeneous sensors must track a set of hostile targets which induce sensory failures on the robots. In particular, the likelihood of failures depends on the proximity between the targets…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Siddharth Mayya , Ragesh K. Ramachandran , Lifeng Zhou , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar

Achieving persistent tracking of multiple dynamic targets over a large spatial area poses significant challenges for a single-robot system with constrained sensing capabilities. As the robot moves to track different targets, the ones…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Junbin Yuan , Brady Moon , Muqing Cao , Sebastian Scherer

This work considers the problem of intercepting rogue drones targeting sensitive critical infrastructure facilities. While current interception technologies focus mainly on the jamming/spoofing tasks, the challenges of effectively locating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Panayiota Valianti , Kleanthis Malialis , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

We study the problem of reducing the amount of communication in decentralized target tracking. We focus on the scenario where a team of robots are allowed to move on the boundary of the environment. Their goal is to seek a formation so as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

We address multi-robot safe mission planning in uncertain dynamic environments. This problem arises in several applications including safety-critical exploration, surveillance, and emergency rescue missions. Computation of a multi-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Daniel Tihanyi , Yimeng Lu , Orcun Karaca , Maryam Kamgarpour

This paper addresses a new semantic multi-robot planning problem in uncertain and dynamic environments. Particularly, the environment is occupied with non-cooperative, mobile, uncertain labeled targets. These targets are governed by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Samarth Kalluraya , George J. Pappas , Yiannis Kantaros

This paper addresses the problem of both actively searching and tracking multiple unknown dynamic objects in a known environment with multiple cooperative autonomous agents with partial observability. The tracking of a target ends when the…

Multi-robot rendezvous and exploration are fundamental challenges in the domain of mobile robotic systems. This paper addresses multi-robot rendezvous within an initially unknown environment where communication is only possible after the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Mauro Tellaroli , Matteo Luperto , Michele Antonazzi , Nicola Basilico

This paper presents a cooperative multi-robot multi-target tracking framework aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the heterogeneous sensor network and, consequently, improving overall target tracking accuracy. The concept of normalized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jun Chen , Mohammed Abugurain , Philip Dames , Shinkyu Park

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a challenging problem for situational awareness in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Real-time multi-robot coordination in hazardous and adversarial environments requires fast, reliable adaptation to dynamic threats. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer strong high-level reasoning capabilities, the lack of safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yuwei Wu , Yuezhan Tao , Peihan Li , Guangyao Shi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou
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