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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Coverage path planning"”.
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Coverage Path Planning And Control For Autonomous Mobile Robots
Coverage control has many applications such as security patrolling, land mine detectors, and automatic vacuum cleaners. This Thesis presents an analytical approach for generation of control inputs for a non-holonomic mobile robot in coverage control. Neural Network approach is used for complete …
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Sampling-based coverage path planning for complex 3D structures
Path planning is an essential capability for autonomous robots, and many applications impose challenging constraints alongside the standard requirement of obstacle avoidance. Coverage planning is one such task, in which a single robot must sweep its end effector over the entirety of a known …
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BOLTZMANN ENTROPY FOR UNDERSEA TERRAIN AIDED NAVIGATION
… Terrain Aided Navigation (UTAN) with respect to coverage path planning and creates a robust coverage path planning algorithm utilizing a new paradigm in configuration entropy. It highlights a classic challenge in the path planning problem between exploration and exploitation. Exploration ensures …
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Enabling methodologies for optimal coverage by multiple autonomous industrial robots
… that enable multiple AIRs to perform complete coverage tasks on objects that can have complex geometric shapes while aiming to achieve optimal team objectives. For the AIRs to achieve optimal complete coverage for tasks such as grit-blasting and spray painting several problems need to be …
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Learning-based crop management optimization using multi-stream convolutional neural networks
… of crop inputs, and a new framework for online coverage path planning with potential use in tasks such as planting and harvesting. The proposed algorithms use Multi-stream Convolutional Neural Networks (MSCNN) to learn relevant spatial features from the environment and use them to optimize the …
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Path Planning for Autonomous Sailing Vessels: Developing Robust and Efficient Survey Strategies
… the challenges and methodologies associated with path planning for autonomous sailing, particularly in the context of survey operations. Unlike traditional motorized vessels, sailing autonomy must account for wind variability, sail dynamics, and limited maneuverability, requiring specialized …
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Hybrid-Adaptive Switched Control for Robotic Manipulator Interacting with Arbitrary Surface Shapes Under Multi-Sensory Guidance
… utilizes both offline and online trajectory planning to achieve fully automated object interaction and surface following with or without contact where no prior knowledge of the objects is available. To minimize the complexity of the task, the problem is formulated into four interaction motion …
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Ground Vehicle Navigation through Traversability Analysis of Outdoor Environments
… non strutturati, in quanto includendoli nel path planning del veicolo, consentono di evitare percorsi pericolosi per lo stesso robot. Sempre nel contesto delle ricostruzioni 3D, si è inoltre sviluppata una soluzione per la teleguida di rover. L'obiettivo di tale soluzione consiste nel …
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Qualitative topological coverage of unknown environments by mobile robots
This thesis considers the problem of complete coverage of unknown environments by a mobile robot. The goal of such navigation is for the robot to visit all reachable surfaces in an environment. The task of achieving complete coverage in unknown environments can be broken down into two smaller …
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Path Planning for a UAV in an Agricultural Environment to Tour and Cover Multiple Neighborhoods
This work focuses on path planning for an autonomous UAV to tour and cover multiple regions in the shortest time. The three challenges to be solved are - finding the right optimal order to tour the neighborhoods, determining entry and exit points to neighborhoods, and covering each neighborhood. …
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Coverage and exploration planning with semantically informed maps
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms