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Multi-robotic Area Exploration for Environmental Protection

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Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems (HoloMAS 2017)

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Area guarding, exploration, and environmental measurement constitute both major necessities and open challenges for current robotics.

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    UAV classification according to [2]. Micro: less than 5 kgs; light: 5 to 50 kgs.

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    The State Administration of Land Surveying and Cadastre of the Czech Republic, a body to provide web map service (WMS) containing orthophotographic, topographic, cadastral, and other map layers.

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The completion of this paper was made possible by the grant No. FEKT-S-17-4234 – ‘Industry 4.0 in automation and cybernetics’ financially supported by the Internal science fund of Brno University of Technology. This work was also supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic under the projects TE01020197 – ‘Centre for Applied Cybernetics 3’ and TH01020862 – ‘System for automatic/automated detection/monitoring radiation situation and localisation of hot spots based on a smart multifunctional detection head usable for stationary and mobile platforms incl. unmanned.’

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    Tomas Lazna, Tomas Jilek, Petr Gabrlik & Ludek Zalud

  2. Department of Control and Instrumentation, FEEC, BUT, Technicka 3082/12, 616 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Tomas Lazna, Tomas Jilek & Petr Gabrlik

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Lazna, T., Jilek, T., Gabrlik, P., Zalud, L. (2017). Multi-robotic Area Exploration for Environmental Protection. In: Mařík, V., Wahlster, W., Strasser, T., Kadera, P. (eds) Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems. HoloMAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10444. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64635-0_18

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