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We present some of the work performed in the GRASP Laboratory with the objective of deploying multi-robot teams in urban environments. Specifically, we focus on three important issues in this type of mission: the development of tools for providing situational awareness, the use of air and ground vehicles for cooperative sensing and the construction of radio maps to keep team connectivity. We describe the main approaches that we have been using for tackling these issues and present some preliminary results from experiments conducted with our team of air and ground vehicles.
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Chaimowicz, L. et al. (2005). Deploying Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams in Urban Environments. In: Parker, L.E., Schneider, F.E., Schultz, A.C. (eds) Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata Volume III. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3389-3_18
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