Planning for Aerial Robot Teams for Wide-Area Biometric and Phenotypic Data Collection

Shashwata Mandal,Tianshuang Gao,Sourabh Bhattacharya,Shashwata Mandal,Tianshuang Gao,Sourabh Bhattacharya

This work presents an efficient and implementable solution to the problem of joint task allocation and path planning in a multi-UAV platform. The sensing requirement associated with the task gives rise to an uncanny variant of the traditional vehicle routing problem with coverage/sensing constraints. As is the case in several multi-robot path-planning problems, our problem reduces to an mTSP probl...