Source-seeking multi-robot team simulator as container of nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms and Astar algorithm

H Li, Z Chu, Y Fang, H Liu, M Zhang, K Wang… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
One driving application for multi-robots is source seeking, especially in the hazardous
environment. It consists of two essential subtasks: source location and path search. Nature …

Source searching in unknown obstructed environments through source estimation, target determination, and path planning

Y Ji, Y Zhao, B Chen, Z Zhu, Y Liu, H Zhu… - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Autonomous mobile robots have been gradually employed to search unknown sources in
indoor environments. However, current studies have not fully addressed the source …

Using tabu search to avoid concave obstacles for source location

J Zhang, H Liu, P Zu, M Zhao, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, using a particle swarm optimizer (PSO) to guide robots in a source location
problem has attracted widespread interest. While being navigated by PSO, robots are easily …

CURE: A hierarchical framework for multi-robot autonomous exploration inspired by centroids of unknown regions

Q Bi, X Zhang, J Wen, Z Pan, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel multi-robot autonomous exploration approach CURE is proposed
based on dynamic Voronoi diagrams and centroids of unknown connected regions …

Multi-robot source location of scalar fields by a novel swarm search mechanism with collision/obstacle avoidance

RG Li, HN Wu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on source location for scalar fields through multiple mobile robots with
sensors. Combined with field strength measurements and swarm evolution mechanisms, the …

Particle swarm optimization-based source seeking

R Zou, V Kalivarapu, E Winer, J Oliver… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The task of locating a source based on the measurements of the signal emitted/emanating
from it is called the source-seeking problem. In the past few years, there has been a lot of …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical Framework and Practical Considerations for Achieving Superior Multi-Robot Exploration: Hybrid Cheetah Optimization with Intelligent Initial …

A El Romeh, S Mirjalili - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Efficient exploration in multi-robot systems is significantly influenced by the initial start
positions of the robots. This paper introduces the hybrid cheetah exploration technique with …

Virtual-Source and Virtual-Swarm-Based Particle Swarm Optimizer for Large-Scale Multi-Source Location via Robot Swarm

JQ Zhang, YX Lin, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-source location is a significant application in the field of robot swarm and is required to
find all sources whose number and distribution are unknown in advance. With few …

Multi-objective conflict-based search for multi-agent path finding

Z Ren, S Rathinam, H Choset - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional multi-agent path planners typically compute an ensemble of paths while
optimizing a single objective, such as path length. However, many applications may require …

An unknown environment exploration strategy for swarm robotics based on brain storm optimization algorithm

G Li, D Zhang, Y Shi - 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a distributed algorithm used to solve the swarm robotic exploration problem
with communication constraint conditions is proposed. The swarm robotics exploration …