Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A Method for Registration of 3-D Shapes
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Special issue on interpretation of 3-D scenes—part II
Terrain coverage with ant robots: a simulation study
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Coverage for robotics – A survey of recent results
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Magnebike: A magnetic wheeled robot with high mobility for inspecting complex-shaped structures
Journal of Field Robotics
Equitable partitioning policies for robotic networks
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
Modeling indoor lighting inspection robot behavior using Concurrent Communicating Lists
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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An ever-growing infrastructure, including existing and newly built power plants, as well as a rising environmental awareness in society call for inspection and maintenance systems of high efficiency. A solution can be found in the development of mobile agents to provide assistive inspection tools with improved autonomy. In collaboration with industry the MagneBike robot for power plant inspection has been developed. The robot has been tested in a specific real field environment showing critical issues but inspiring future guidelines. This paper proposes to turn the semi-autonomous MagneBike robot into a multi-agent inspection system with clear benefits in speed, robustness and flexibility of task execution. The inspection task is approached by a hybrid coverage method that combines the concepts of blanket and sweep coverage. Three algorithms implementing hybrid coverage are presented and evaluated in simulations.