4 accepted papers
Thearea used for grazing cattle constitutes about one-third of the land in United States. In this paper, we present the design of Cowbot, an autonomous weed mowing robot for maintaining cow pastures. Cowbot is designed to operate in rugged environments and provides a cost-effective method for weed c
Many robotic coverage applications involve detection of spatially distributed targets, followed by path planning to visit them for service. In these applications, the performance of the detection algorithm can have profound effect on planning decisions and costs. Range of operation, in both space an…
There are many applications such as surveillance and mapping that require persistent monitoring of terrains. In this work, we consider a heterogeneous team of aerial and ground robots that are tasked with monitoring a terrain along a given path. Both types of robots are equipped with cameras that ca…
We address the problem of visually monitoring a terrain path using ground and aerial robots. This is a coupled problem that involves computation of a guard set for the environment and route planning for a heterogeneous group of robots through the points in the guard set. A terrain path that needs to…