A fluid dynamics approach to multi-robot chemical plume tracing

This paper presents a novel chemical plume tracing algorithm executed by a distributed network of mobile sensing robots that measure the ambient fluid velocity and chemical concentration. The algorithm drives the robotic network to the source of the toxic plume, where measures can be taken to remove or extinguish the source emitter.

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