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Disaster Region Coverage Using Drones: Maximum Area Coverage and Minimum Resource Utilisation [PDF]

open access: yesDrones, 2022
The purpose of this study is to develop a design for maximum area drone coverage in a post-disaster flood situation. When it comes to covering a disaster-region for monitoring and detection of the extent of damage and losses, a suitable and technically ...
Hafiz Suliman Munawar   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

A Distributed Multi-Agent Dynamic Area Coverage Algorithm Based on Reinforcement Learning

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Dynamic area coverage is widely used in military and civil fields. Improving coverage efficiency is an important research direction for multi-agent dynamic area coverage.
Jian Xiao   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

A Method for Maximum Coverage of the Territory by Sensors with Minimization of Cost and Assessment of Survivability

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
In the modern technological world, there are several key factors in the construction of sensor networks. These include maximizing the coverage and minimizing the cost of the network.
Volodymyr Petrivskyi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal Morphologies of n-Omino-Based Reconfigurable Robot for Area Coverage Task Using Metaheuristic Optimization

open access: yesMathematics, 2023
Reconfigurable robots design based on polyominos or n-Omino is increasingly being explored in cleaning and maintenance (CnM) tasks due to their ability to change shape using intra- and inter-reconfiguration, resulting in various footprints of the robot ...
Manivannan Kalimuthu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Immunization Coverage in a Rural Area

open access: yesJournal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2016
Background: To assess the immunization status of children less than 2 years of age. The impact of mother’s education, presence of health workers in the area and gender on immunization status was studied. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study,
Abdul Rehman Shaikh
doaj   +1 more source

Olfactory coordinated area coverage [PDF]

open access: yesAutonomous Robots, 2006
This paper proposes an olfaction based methodology to automatically cover an unknown area enabling the decoupled cooperation of a group of floor cleaning mobile robots. This method is based on the utilisation of low cost chemical sensors in cleaning mobile robots, in order to differentiate clean from dirty areas.
Svetlana Larionova   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A Stacking Ensemble Learning Method to Classify the Patterns of Complex Road Junctions

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022
Recognizing the patterns of road junctions in a road network plays a crucial role in various applications. Owing to the diversity and complexity of morphologies of road junctions, traditional methods that rely heavily on manual settings of features and ...
Min Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship.
Lalloo, Ratilal   +3 more
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Robust Area Coverage with Connectivity Maintenance [PDF]

open access: yes2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019
Robot swarms herald the ability to solve complex tasks using a large collection of simple devices. However, engineering a robotic swarm is far from trivial, with a major hurdle being the definition of the control laws leading to the desired globally coordinated behavior.
Luca Siligardi   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Multi-Agent Collaborative Path Planning Based on Staying Alive Policy

open access: yesRobotics, 2020
Modern mobile robots tend to be used in numerous exploration and search and rescue applications. Essentially they are coordinated by human operators and collaborate with inspection or rescue teams.
Anton Koval   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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