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Monitoring human activity in indoor environments is important for applications such as facility management, safety assessment, and space utilization analysis. While mobile robot teams offer the potential to actively improve observation…

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Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communication links. In multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Monica M. Q. Li , Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Jialiang Liu , Giovanni Beltrame

This paper focuses on the optimal coverage problem (OCP) for multi-agent systems with a decentralized optimization mechanism. A game based distributed decision-making method for the multi-agent OCP is proposed to address the high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Zixin Feng , Wenchao Xue , Yifen Mu , Ming Wei , Bin Meng , Wei Cui

We tackle the problem of cooperative visual exploration where multiple agents need to jointly explore unseen regions as fast as possible based on visual signals. Classical planning-based methods often suffer from expensive computation…

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We use conformal maps to study a free boundary problem for a two-fluid electromechanical system, where the interface between the fluids is determined by the combined effects of electrostatic forces, gravity and surface tension. The free…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Stuart Kent , Shankar C. Venkataramani

In multi-agent systems, agents possess only local observations of the environment. Communication between teammates becomes crucial for enhancing coordination. Past research has primarily focused on encoding local information into embedding…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Peihong Yu , Bhoram Lee , Aswin Raghavan , Supun Samarasekara , Pratap Tokekar , James Zachary Hare

We study the so-called dynamic coverage problem by agents located in some topological graph. The agents must visit all regions of interest but they also should stay connected to the base via multi-hop. We prove that the algorithmic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Tristan Charrier , François Schwarzentruber , Eva Soulier

Multi-robot systems are essential for environmental monitoring, particularly for tracking spatial phenomena like pollution, soil minerals, and water salinity, and more. This study addresses the challenge of deploying a multi-robot team for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Federico Pratissoli , Mattia Mantovani , Amanda Prorok , Lorenzo Sabattini

We present a decentralized ergodic control policy for time-varying area coverage problems for multiple agents with nonlinear dynamics. Ergodic control allows us to specify distributions as objectives for area coverage problems for nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Ian Abraham , Todd D. Murphey

This project proposes a bioinspired multi-robot system using Distributed Optimization for efficient exploration and mapping of unknown environments. Each robot explores its environment and creates a map, which is afterwards put together to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Roman Ibrahimov , Jannik Matthias Heinen

In texture-plus-depth representation of a 3D scene, depth maps from different camera viewpoints are typically lossily compressed via the classical transform coding / coefficient quantization paradigm. In this paper we propose to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Pengfei Wan , Gene Cheung , Philip A. Chou , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang , Oscar C. Au

The increasing demand for energy-efficient solutions in large-scale infrastructure, particularly data centers, requires advanced control strategies to optimize environmental management systems. We propose a multi-agent architecture for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Natasha Astudillo , Fernando Koch

This paper proposes a method for the deployment of a multi-agent system of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a shield with potential applications in the protection of infrastructures. The shield shape is modeled as a quadric surface in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 María Guinaldo , José Sánchez-Moreno , Salvador Zaragoza , Francisco José Mañas-Álvarez

The objective of meta-learning is to exploit the knowledge obtained from observed tasks to improve adaptation to unseen tasks. As such, meta-learners are able to generalize better when they are trained with a larger number of observed tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mert Kayaalp , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

A multi-agent coverage problem is considered with energy-constrained agents. The objective of this paper is to compare the coverage performance between centralized and decentralized approaches. To this end, a near-optimal centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Xiangyu Meng , Xinmiao Sun , Christos G. Cassandras , Kaiyuan Xu

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially observable environments. A fundamental challenge of obtaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ziyuan Ma , Yudong Luo , Hang Ma

Autonomous vehicles that operate in urban environments shall comply with existing rules and reason about the interactions with other decision-making agents. In this paper, we introduce a decentralized and communication-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lucas Streichenberg , Elia Trevisan , Jen Jen Chung , Roland Siegwart , Javier Alonso-Mora

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) finds various applications in fields such as traffic management, airport operations, and warehouse automation. In many of these environments, differential drive robots are commonly used. These robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jingtian Yan , Jiaoyang Li

Mapping is a time-consuming process for deploying robotic systems to new environments. The handling of maps is also risk-adverse when not managed effectively. We propose here, a standardised approach to handling such maps in a manner which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 James R. Heselden , Gautham P. Das