The State-of-the-Art of Mobile Robot Area Coverage

Weihua Sheng
ECE Department, Kettering University, Flint MI 48504
wsheng@kettering.edu

Howie Choset
Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, 15213
choset@ri.cmu.edu

Speakers

Howie Choset, Mech. Eng. and Robotics Inst., Carnegie Mellon University
Zack Butler, Robotics Lab, CS Department, Dartmouth College
Gaurav Sukhatme, CS Dept., University of Southern California
Israel A Wagner, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Gregory Dudek, Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University
Weihua Sheng, ECE Department, Kettering University
Wesley H. Huang, Computer Science Dept., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jindong Tan, ECE Department, Michigan Technological University

Abstract

In recent years, research in mobile robot area coverage has been receiving consistent attention, which, not surprisingly, reveals the fact that robotic coverage is closely related to numerous real-world applications. To name a few, vacuuming, lawn mowing, demining, surveillance, search and rescue, planetary exploration, etc. These applications require that the area of interest be covered by the robot sensors or end-effectors for various purposes. These routine real world applications impose great challenges to researchers in robotics and automation area. This half-day workshop will focus on the design and implementation of efficient and reliable robotic systems, coverage approaches and algorithms to carry out the desired missions. In this workshop, robotics researchers around the world who are actively working in this area will present their recent results. The main topics will include: complete-coverage path planning for known and unknown environment; multiple robot coordination in area coverage; dynamic coverage; mobile sensor network-based coverage; fault-tolerance in coverage; ant-inspired coverage, etc. This workshop will summarize the progress that has been made and, more importantly, explore the new research frontiers that emerge as new applications are identified and new technologies in robots and sensors are introduced.

Website
http://www.kettering.edu/~wsheng/ICRA04workshop.html

Registration

To attend this workshop, register for workshop M-WP-3 by advance registration deadline.

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