Area coverage is one of the emerging problems in multi-robot coordination. In this task a team of robots is cooperatively trying to observe or sweep an entire area, possibly conta...
— When sensors are redundantly deployed, a subset of sensors should be selected to actively monitor the field (referred to as a "cover"), while the rest of the sensors ...
Habib Mostafaei, Mohammad Reza Meybodi, Mehdi Esna...
: Since sensor nodes operate on batteries, energy-efficient mechanisms for gathering sensor data are indispensable in prolonging the lifetime of a sensor network as long as possibl...
Dynamic geographic phenomena, such as forest fires and oil spills, can have dire environmental, sociopolitical, and economic consequences. Mitigating, if not preventing such events...
Christopher Farah, Cheng Zhong, Michael F. Worboys...
— This paper addresses a novel visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem in which a team of searchers with limited range sensors must coordinate to clear any evaders from an unkno...
Joseph W. Durham, Antonio Franchi, Francesco Bullo