5 accepted papers
Many multi-robot applications require allocating a team of heterogeneous agents (robots) with different abilities to cooperatively complete a given set of spatially distributed tasks as quickly as possible. We focus on tasks that can only be initiated when all required agents are present otherwise a
In multi-robot exploration, a team of mobile robot is tasked with efficiently mapping an unknown environments. While most exploration planners assume omnidirectional sensors like LiDAR, this is impractical for small robots such as drones, where lightweight, directional sensors like cameras may be th
To perform autonomous visual search for environmental monitoring, a robot may leverage satellite imagery as a prior map. This can help inform coarse, high level search and exploration strategies, even when such images lack sufficient resolution to allow fine-grained, explicit visual recognition of t…
In visibility-based pursuit-evasion tasks, a team of mobile pursuer robots with limited sensing capabilities is tasked with detecting all evaders in a multiply-connected planar environment, whose map may or may not be known to pursuers beforehand. This requires tight coordination among multiple agen…
Mapless navigation refers to a challenging task where a mobile robot must rapidly navigate to a predefined destination using its partial knowledge of the environment, which is updated online along the way, instead of a prior map of the environment. Inspired by the recent developments in deep reinfor…