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Inspecting indoor environments such as tunnels, industrial facilities, and construction sites is essential for infrastructure monitoring and maintenance. While manual inspection in these environments is often time-consuming and potentially…

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There is increasing demand for control of multi-robot and as well distributing large amounts of content to cluster of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) on the operation. In recent years several large-scale accidents have happened. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Rahim Rahmani , Ramin Firouzi , Theo Kanter

Multi-robot navigation in unknown, structurally constrained, and GPS-denied environments presents a fundamental trade-off between global strategic foresight and local tactical agility, particularly under limited communication. Centralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zihao Mao , Yunheng Wang , Yunting Ji , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Collaborative multi-agent exploration of unknown environments is crucial for search and rescue operations. Effective real-world deployment must address challenges such as limited inter-agent communication and static and dynamic obstacles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

In critical situations such as natural disasters, network outages, battlefield communication, or large-scale public events, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising approach to maximize wireless coverage for affected users in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Xuli Cai , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci

Designing continuous trajectories whose time-averaged occupancy provably matches a prescribed spatial density (the \emph{ergodic coverage} problem) is central to UAV-assisted data collection and sensing, robotic exploration, and mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ehsan Aghazadeh , Masoud Malekzadeh , Ahmad Ghasemi , Hossein Pishro-Nik

One of the most critical applications undertaken by coalitions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is reaching predefined targets by following the most time-efficient routes while avoiding collisions.…

Traditional methods plan feasible paths for multiple agents in the stochastic environment. However, the methods' iterations with the changes in the environment result in computation complexities, especially for the decentralized agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Qizhen Wu , Kexin Liu , Lei Chen , Jinhu Lü

In this study, an ergodic environment exploration problem is introduced for a centralized multi-agent system. Given the reference distribution represented by the Mixture of Gaussian (MoG), the ergodicity is achieved when the time-averaged…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Rabiul Hasan Kabir , Kooktae Lee , Geronimo Macias

Transportation missions in aerospace are limited to the capability of each aerospace robot and the properties of the target transported object, such as mass, inertia, and grasping locations. We present a novel decentralized adaptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Longsen Gao , Kevin Aubert , David Saldana , Claus Danielson , Rafael Fierro

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

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

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly used as rapidly deployable aerial relays and sensing platforms, yet practical deployments must operate under partial observability and intermittent peer-to-peer links. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Enguang Fan , Yifan Chen , Zihan Shan , Matthew Caesar , Jae Kim

This paper addresses the fundamental problem of non-uniform area coverage in multi-agent systems, where different regions require varying levels of attention due to mission-dependent priorities. Existing uniform coverage strategies are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Sungjun Seo , Kooktae Lee

We present a novel decentralized algorithm for coverage control in unknown spatial environments modeled by Gaussian Processes (GPs). To trade-off between exploration and exploitation, each agent autonomously determines its trajectory by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gennaro Guidone , Luca Monegaglia , Elia Raimondi , Han Wang , Mattia Bianchi , Florian Dörfler

Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed for long-term information-gathering tasks, which pose two key challenges: planning informative trajectories in environments that evolve across space and time, and ensuring persistent operation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kaleb Ben Naveed , Devansh R. Agrawal , Rahul Kumar , Dimitra Panagou

This paper develops a stochastic programming framework for multi-agent systems where task decomposition, assignment, and scheduling problems are simultaneously optimized. The framework can be applied to heterogeneous mobile robot teams with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bo Fu , William Smith , Denise Rizzo , Matthew Castanier , Maani Ghaffari , Kira Barton

We present a fully integrated autonomous multi- robot aerial system for finding and collecting moving and static objects with unknown locations. This task addresses multiple relevant problems in search and rescue (SAR) robotics such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Rik Bähnemann , Dominik Schindler , Mina Kamel , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

Future vehicular networks require continuous connectivity to serve highly mobile users in urban environments. To mitigate the coverage limitations of fixed terrestrial macro base stations (MBS) under non line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Leonardo Spampinato , Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Enrico Testi , Chiara Buratti , Riccardo Marini

Hazardous environments such as chemical spills, radiological zones, and bio-contaminated sites pose significant threats to human safety and public infrastructure. Rapid and reliable hazard mitigation in these settings often unsafe for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Jimin Choi , Max Z. Li