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Noam Hazon. Robust and Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage. Master's
Thesis, Bar Ilan University,2005.
Area coverage is an important task for mobile robots, with manyreal-world applications. Motivated by potential efficiency androbustness improvements, there is growing interest in the use ofmultiple robots in coverage. Previous investigations ofmulti-robot coverage algorithms focused on the improved efficiencygained from the use of multiple robots, but did not formallyaddressed the potential for greater robustness. We addressrobustness and efficiency in a family of multi-robot coveragealgorithms, based on spanning-tree coverage of approximate celldecomposition. We present off-line and on-line algorithms andanalytically show that the algorithms are complete and robust, inthat as long as a single robot is able to move, the coverage willbe completed. We analyze the assumptions underlying the algorithmsrequirements and present a number of techniques for executing itin real robots. We show extensive empirical coverage-time resultsof running the algorithms in a number of different environmentsand several group sizes.
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