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Connectivity-Aware Graph Extension for Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration

Béatrice Garcia Cegarra, Elena Vanneaux, Quentin Picard, David Filliat

cs.ROarXiv:2609.00804

Abstract

Exploring unknown environments with multiple UAVs requires coordination under intermittent communication, making decentralized operation a baseline assumption. We propose, within a decentralized framework, a novel exploration graph extension strategy based on frontier connectivity to extend exploration plans and maintain area partitioning among agents stable and robust to disconnections and changes in spatial layout. The proposed extension method is applied to two state-of-the-art area partitioning methods and evaluated in simulation. Experiments show improved performance over existing graph extension approaches with higher exploration efficiency under low communication rate.

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