2020
DOI: 10.3390/rs12233858
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Tangle-Free Exploration with a Tethered Mobile Robot

Abstract: Exploration and remote sensing with mobile robots is a well known field of research, but current solutions cannot be directly applied for tethered robots. In some applications, tethers may be very important to provide power or allow communication with the robot. This paper presents an exploration algorithm that guarantees complete exploration of arbitrary environments within the length constraint of the tether, while keeping the tether tangle-free at all times. While we also propose a generalized algorithm tha… Show more

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“…Many researchers have proposed various autonomous exploration methods in recent years, which can be divided into frontier-based methods [11][12][13][14], information-based methods [15,16], and hybrid methods [17]. Different types of maps are applied to autonomous exploration, such as methods [11,[18][19][20] based on occupancy grid map, methods [21,22] based on topological maps, and methods [23] based on feature maps.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many researchers have proposed various autonomous exploration methods in recent years, which can be divided into frontier-based methods [11][12][13][14], information-based methods [15,16], and hybrid methods [17]. Different types of maps are applied to autonomous exploration, such as methods [11,[18][19][20] based on occupancy grid map, methods [21,22] based on topological maps, and methods [23] based on feature maps.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Considering all the previous work done on tethered robots and their applications, by the authors knowledge, our previous conference paper [26] and journal paper [27] along with this thesis are the first ones that solve the tangle-free exploration problem with tethered robots. The key contributions of these works are as follows:…”
Section: Contributionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…• The main exploration algorithm has been generalized and made modular in [27]. The generalized form is not dependent on any specific exploration or path planning method.…”
Section: Contributionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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