Socially Fair Coverage Control

Matthew Malencia,George Pappas,Vijay Kumar,Matthew Malencia,George Pappas,Vijay Kumar

We investigate and develop algorithms for social fairness in coverage control problems. Existing coverage control methods are efficient, optimizing the average expected distance from any event to the nearest robot. However, in societal applications like disaster response or transportation, these conventional objectives lead to disparate coverage costs with respect to different groups within a popu...