UAV Cluster Mission Planning Strategy for Area Coverage Tasks [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 In the context of area coverage tasks in three-dimensional space, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) clusters face challenges such as uneven task assignment, low task efficiency, and high energy consumption.
Xiaohong Yan, Renwen Chen, Zihao Jiang
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Area Coverage Maximization under Connectivity Constraint in Wireless Sensor Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have several important applications, both in research and domestic use. Generally, their main role is to collect and transmit data from an ROI (region of interest) to a base station for processing and analysis.
Frantz Tossa +4 more
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Autonomous Mission of Multi-UAV for Optimal Area Coverage [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 This study proposes an entire hardware and software architecture from operator input to motor command for the autonomous area coverage mission using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles.
Youkyung Hong +3 more
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Matheuristics for Multi-UAV Routing and Recharge Station Location for Complete Area Coverage [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 This paper presents matheuristics for routing a heterogeneous group of capacitated unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for complete coverage of ground areas, considering simultaneous minimization of the coverage time and locating the minimal number of refueling
Rafael Santin +3 more
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Collaborative visual area coverage [PDF]
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 This article examines the problem of visual area coverage by a network of Mobile Aerial Agents (MAAs). Each MAA is assumed to be equipped with a downwards facing camera with a conical field of view which covers all points within a circle on the ground.
Papatheodorou, Sotiris +2 more
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A Survey on Swarm Robotics for Area Coverage Problem
Algorithms, 2023 The area coverage problem solution is one of the vital research areas which can benefit from swarm robotics. The greatest challenge to the swarm robotics system is to complete the task of covering an area effectively.
Dena Kadhim Muhsen +2 more
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Uniformity and Deviation of Intra-axonal Cross-sectional Area Coverage of the Gray-to-White Matter Interface [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2017 Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a compelling tool for investigating the structure and geometry of brain tissue based on indirect measurement of the diffusion anisotropy of water.
Stefan Sommer +5 more
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Transforming Area Coverage to Target Coverage to Maintain Coverage and Connectivity for Wireless Sensor Networks [PDF]
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2012 Area coverage is one of the key issues for wireless sensor networks. It aims at selecting a minimum number of sensor nodes to cover the whole sensing region and maximizing the lifetime of the network.
Xiu Deng +3 more
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An Area Coverage and Energy Consumption Optimization Approach Based on Improved Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization for Directional Sensor Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 Coverage is a vital indicator which reflects the performance of directional sensor networks (DSNs). The random deployment of directional sensor nodes will lead to many covergae blind areas and overlapping areas. Besides, the premature death of nodes will
Song Peng, Yonghua Xiong
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A Distributed Multi-Agent Dynamic Area Coverage Algorithm Based on Reinforcement Learning
IEEE 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
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