— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
— Environments with varying reward contingencies constitute a challenge to many living creatures. In such conditions, animals capable of adaptation and learning derive an advanta...
— Thanks to recent technological progress, autonomous wireless sensor networks have experienced considerable development. Currently, they are used in the areas of health care, en...
– In this paper, we proposed an improved algorithm for the multi-robot complete coverage problem. Real world applications such as lawn mowing, chemical spill clean-up, and humani...
— Robot search and rescue is a time critical task, i.e. a large terrain has to be explored by multiple robots within a short amount of time. The efficiency of exploration depend...
Alexander Kleiner, Johann Prediger, Bernhard Nebel