An energy efficient coverage path planning approach for mobile robots

Abstract

An energy efficient online approach for performing coverage task in an unknown environment proposed in this paper. Although, energy consumption is an important optimality criteria, the current state of the art backtracking path planning approaches do not consider energy consumption required by robot to follow the path. This paper presents an energy efficient backtracking path planning approach for performing coverage task. The simulation results and comparative analysis show that the proposed approach gives better performance in time and memory requirements along with shorter path lengths.