Visual area coverage with collaborative autonomous aerial vehicles

• Main Author: Μπούσιας, Νικόλαος
• Other Authors: Δερματάς, Ευάγγελος
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Autonomous swarms; Collaborative robotics; Area coverage; Decentralized control; Muti-agent systems; Sensor networks; Εναέρια ρομπότ; Οπτικοί αισθητήρες; 629.892 637

The current thesis examines the problem of visual surveillance of a planar, convex region of interest by a fully autonomous, heterogeneous swarm of mobile aerial vehicles, equipped with Pan-Tilt-Zoom cameras of conical field of view and operating under GPS-induced 3D localization uncertainty. The...