RACER: Rapid Collaborative Exploration with a Decentralized Multi-UAV System

Understand

Although the use of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has great potential for fast autonomous exploration, it has received far too little attention.

• In this paper, we present RACER, a RApid Collaborative ExploRation approach using a fleet of decentralized UAVs.
• To effectively dispatch the UAVs, a pairwise interaction based on an online hgrid space decomposition is used.
• It ensures that all UAVs simultaneously explore distinct regions, using only asynchronous and limited communication.