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Distributed Heterogeneous Multi-robot Source Seeking Using Information Based Sampling with Visual Recognition

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Experimental Robotics (ISER 2020)

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Search and rescue robots often need to find the source of a signal like radio-active material, heat signature, or gas leak. This problem is known as stochastic source seeking.

C. Nieto-Granda—This work was done during the author’s Ph.D. Thesis at the University of California San Diego.

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Nieto-Granda, C., Wang, S., Dhiman, V., Rogers, J., Christensen, H.I. (2021). Distributed Heterogeneous Multi-robot Source Seeking Using Information Based Sampling with Visual Recognition. In: Siciliano, B., Laschi, C., Khatib, O. (eds) Experimental Robotics. ISER 2020. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71151-1_41

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