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Autonomous aerial-surface robot teams offer a scalable solution for maritime monitoring, but deployment remains difficult due to water-induced visual artifacts and bandwidth-limited coordination. This paper presents a decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Muhammad Farhan Ahmed , Vincent Frémont

The multi-objective coverage control problem requires a robot swarm to collaboratively provide sensor coverage to multiple heterogeneous importance density fields IDFs simultaneously. We pose this as an optimization problem with constraints…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Juan Cervino , Saurav Agarwal , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro

Heterogeneous multi-robot sensing systems are able to characterize physical processes more comprehensively than homogeneous systems. Access to multiple modalities of sensory data allow such systems to fuse information between complementary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Andrew McDonald , Lai Wei , Vaibhav Srivastava

We propose a general framework for creating parameterized control schemes for decentralized multi-robot systems. A variety of tasks can be seen in the decentralized multi-robot literature, each with many possible control schemes. For…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Stephen Jacobs , R. Michael Butts , Yu Gu , Ali Baheri , Guilherme A. S. Pereira

This work is concerned with the problem of planning trajectories and assigning tasks for a Multi-Agent System (MAS) comprised of differential drive robots. We propose a multirate hierarchical control structure that employs a planner based…

In this paper, we present a decentralized and communication-free collision avoidance approach for multi-robot systems that accounts for both robot localization and sensing uncertainties. The approach relies on the computation of an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Hai Zhu , Bruno Brito , Javier Alonso-Mora

In this paper, we consider two coupled problems for distributed multi-robot systems (MRSs) coordinating with limited field of view (FOV) sensors: adaptive tuning of interaction gains and rejection of sensor attacks. First, a typical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Pratik Mukherjee , Matteo Santilli , Andrea Gasparri , Ryan K. Williams

In many robotics problems, there is a significant gain in collaborative information sharing between multiple robots, for exploration, search and rescue, tracking multiple targets, or mapping large environments. One of the key implicit…

Efficient coordination of multiple robots for coverage of large, unknown environments is a significant challenge that involves minimizing the total coverage path length while reducing inter-robot conflicts. In this paper, we introduce a…

Multi-robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) addresses the problem of computing paths for multiple robots to effectively cover a large area of interest. Conventional approaches to MCPP typically assume that robots move at fixed velocities,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun Chen , Mingjia Chen , Shinkyu Park

Floating-base multi-link robots can change their shape during flight, making them well-suited for applications in confined environments such as autonomous inspection and search and rescue. However, trajectory planning for such systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yicheng Chen , Jinjie Li , Haokun Liu , Zicheng Luo , Kotaro Kaneko , Moju Zhao

Developing a safe and efficient collision avoidance policy for multiple robots is challenging in the decentralized scenarios where each robot generate its paths without observing other robots' states and intents. While other distributed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Pinxin Long , Tingxiang Fan , Xinyi Liao , Wenxi Liu , Hao Zhang , Jia Pan

In-Orbit Servicing and Active Debris Removal require advanced robotic capabilities for capturing and detumbling uncooperative targets. This work presents a hierarchical control framework for autonomous robotic capture of tumbling objects in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Pietro Bruschi

Multi-robot bounding overwatch requires timely coordination of robot team members. Symbolic motion planning (SMP) can provide provably correct solutions for robot motion planning with high-level temporal logic task requirements. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Huanfei Zheng , Jonathon M. Smereka , Dariusz Mikulski , Stephanie Roth , Yue Wang

With the ever growing number of space debris in orbit, the need to prevent further space population is becoming more and more apparent. Refueling, servicing, inspection and deorbiting of spacecraft are some example missions that require…

Connectivity and coverage are two crucial problems for wireless sensor networks. Several studies have focused on proposing solutions for improving and adjusting the initial deployment of a wireless sensor network to meet these two criteria.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Hanen Idoudi , Chiraz Houaidia , Leila Azouz Saidane , Pascale Minet

Decentralized control of robots has attracted huge research interests. However, some of the research used unrealistic assumptions without collision avoidance. This report focuses on the collision-free control for multiple robots in both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Xiaotian Yang

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

This paper presents a distributed approach for exploring and triangulating an unknown region using a multi- robot system. The objective is to produce a covering of an unknown workspace by a fixed number of robots such that the covered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-02-04 SeoungKyou Lee , Aaron Becker , Sándor P. Fekete , Alexander Kröller , James McLurkin

Humanoid robots offer significant advantages for search and rescue tasks, thanks to their capability to traverse rough terrains and perform transportation tasks. In this study, we present a task and motion planning framework for search and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Abdulaziz Shamsah , Jesse Jiang , Ziwon Yoon , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao