ESCAPE: an efficient and safe distributed UAV swarm exploration framework with collision avoidance perception

Today's article comes from the journal of Autonomous Intelligent Systems. The authors are Bao et al., from Tongji University, in China. In this paper they propose a new distributed exploration algorithm for drones. If it works, it should allow a swarm of UAVs to map complex interiors and cover large volumes quickly without crashing into each other or stalling out.

DOI: 10.1007/s43684-025-00123-y