Heterogeneous Collaborative Pursuit via Coverage Control Driven by Fokker-Planck Equations

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Authors

Ruoyu Lin, Soobum Kim, Magnus Egerstedt

Abstract

This paper presents an ecologically inspired multi-robot collaboration framework that is adaptive to both dynamic environments and diverse tasks. Its effectiveness is demonstrated through four experimental applications: forest firefighting, pursuit-evasion, environmental monitoring, and phoretic interactions. This framework allows for a wide range of applications, such as portraying dynamic geometric patterns in drone art shows, positioning environmental cleaning robots for pollutant removal, and deploying multi-robot teams for monitoring eroded beaches and coral reefs.

Link

R. Lin, S. Kim, and M. Egerstedt, “Heterogeneous Collaborative Pursuit via Coverage Control Driven by Fokker–Planck Equations,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2025

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