Adaptive continuous‐space informative path planning for online environmental monitoring

• Published in: Journal of field robotics Vol. 34; no. 8; pp. 1427 - 1449
• Main Authors: Hitz, Gregory, Galceran, Enric, Garneau, Marie‐Ève, Pomerleau, François, Siegwart, Roland
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.12.2017
• Subjects: active sensing; Algorithms; Computer memory; Data collection; Ecological monitoring; Environmental monitoring; Evolutionary algorithms; informative path planning; marine robotics; Microorganisms; Path planning; Planning; Polypropylene; Spots

Autonomous mobile robots are increasingly employed to take measurements for environmental monitoring, but planning informative, measurement‐rich paths through large three‐dimensional environments is still challenging. Designing such paths, known as the informative path planning (IPP) problem, has be...