arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-07-12
Coverage Path Planning: Classical Foundations, Recent Advances, and Future Directions
Zongyuan Shen, Shalabh Gupta, Shancheng Zhao, Dehua Zhou, Gao Wang, Zhongqiang Ren, et al.
Coverage path planning (CPP) is a fundamental problem in robot motion planning, whose aim is to produce robot trajectories that provide complete coverage of target workspaces while minimizing task-specific objectives such as path length, overlap, number of turns, and energy consu…