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A Collaborative Aerial-Ground Robotic System for Fast Exploration

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Exploration of unknown environments using autonomous robots has been considered a fundamental problem in robotics applications such as search and rescue [10], industrial inspection and 3D modelling.

L. Wang and D. Cheng—contributed equally to this work.

This work was supported by HKUST project R9341.

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Wang, L. et al. (2020). A Collaborative Aerial-Ground Robotic System for Fast Exploration. In: Xiao, J., Kröger, T., Khatib, O. (eds) Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. ISER 2018. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33950-0_6

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