Development and implementation of swarm sweep cleaning protocol for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (QUAV) swarm

• Main Authors: Fermin, Christian Kyle Y., Imperial, Arthur Lanz L., Molato, Karlo Felipe D.L., Santos, Jesse Daniel A., Faelden, Gerard Ely U., Maningo, Jose Martin Z., Bandala, Argel A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Swarm intelligence; Quadrotor helicopters; Drone aircraft; Cleaning machinery and appliances; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Robotics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/363; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/1362/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study aims to implement the SWEEP cleaning protocol in a swarm of flying robots. The dynamic cleaners' problem is one of the most popular application of swarm intelligence. The swarm is tasked to cover the target area in an optimized manner. It starts with an area where in a contamination...