Risk-aware Recharging Rendezvous for a Collaborative Team of UAVs and UGVs

Ahmad Bilal Asghar,Guangyao Shi,Nare Karapetyan,James Humann,Jean-Paul Reddinger,James Dotterweich,Pratap Tokekar,Ahmad Bilal Asghar,Guangyao Shi,Nare Karapetyan,James Humann,Jean-Paul Reddinger,James Dotterweich,Pratap Tokekar

We introduce and investigate the recharging rendezvous problem for a collaborative team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), in which UAVs with limited battery capacity and UGVS persistently monitor an area. The UGVs also act as mobile recharging stations for the UAVs. In contrast to prior work on such problems, we consider the challenge of dealing with stochasti...