Path planning of irregular region has always been an important technique for robots in exploration missions, especially in ocean environmental observation missions. In ocean surveys 1,2, detection of ...

Autonomous decisions and control for numerous UAVs are made possible by mission planning technologies. Mission planning is the process of organizing a team of UAVs to accomplish a set of coordinated ...

Shortest path algorithms like Dijkstra, BFS, and advanced approximations power everything from Google Maps to network routing. Understanding when and how to apply them can save time and resources in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...