With the rapid development of automated guided vehicle (AGV), the AGV dispatching
problem (AGVDP) becomes a major concern in the AGV system owing to its decisive impact …

With many applications across domains as diverse as logistics, healthcare, and agriculture,
service robots are in increasingly high demand. Nevertheless, the designers of these robots …

Human–robot collaboration (HRC) is expected to add flexibility and agility to production
lines in manufacturing plants. In this context, versatile scheduling algorithms are needed to …

The use of multiple cooperating industrial robots provides efficient and flexible solutions to
the manufacturing of complex aerospace structures. Such applications require the …

The advancement of technology and the empowerment of the industry have made humans
and robots more closely tied together, known as human-robot collaboration. A sector that …

To meet the demands in terms of energy-efficient and fast production and delivery of goods,
robotic fleets began to populate warehouses and industrial environments. To maximize the …

Modeling and solving multi-robot task allocation with definite path-conflict-free handling is
an important research, especially in real working environments. Some of the research lines …

The multi-robot task allocation problem comprises task assignment, coalition formation, task
scheduling, and routing. We extend the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) …

Multi-agent task allocation methods seek to distribute a set of tasks fairly amongst a set of
agents. In real-world settings, such as soft fruit farms, human labourers undertake harvesting …

Response threshold reinforcement is a powerful model for decentralized task allocation and
specialization in multiagent swarms. In dynamic environments, initial task assignments and …