Optimization techniques for Multi-Robot Task Allocation problems: Review on the state-of-the-art

H Chakraa, F Guérin, E Leclercq, D Lefebvre - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the last years, Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) have experienced considerable recognition
due to various possible real-world applications. Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) is …

A survey of task allocation techniques in MAS

GM Skaltsis, HS Shin… - … Conference on Unmanned …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-agent systems and especially unmanned vehicles, are a crucial part of the solution to a
lot of real world problems, making essential the improvement of task allocation techniques …

Scalable coverage path planning of multi-robot teams for monitoring non-convex areas

L Collins, P Ghassemi, ET Esfahani… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel multi-robot coverage path planning (CPP) algorithm-aka
SCoPP-that provides a time-efficient solution, with workload balanced plans for each robot …

Multi-robot task allocation in disaster response: Addressing dynamic tasks with deadlines and robots with range and payload constraints

P Ghassemi, S Chowdhury - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper tackles a class of multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problems called “Single-
Task Robots and Single-Robot Tasks” or SR–ST problems, subject to the following …

Cooperative multi-robot task allocation with reinforcement learning

B Park, C Kang, J Choi - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper deals with the concept of multi-robot task allocation, referring to the assignment
of multiple robots to tasks such that an objective function is maximized. The performance of …

Learning scalable policies over graphs for multi-robot task allocation using capsule attention networks

S Paul, P Ghassemi… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel graph reinforcement learning (RL) architecture to solve multi-
robot task allocation (MRTA) problems that involve tasks with deadlines and workload, and …

Efficient planning of multi-robot collective transport using graph reinforcement learning with higher order topological abstraction

S Paul, W Li, B Smyth, Y Chen, Y Gel… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is fundamental to various time-sensitive
applications such as disaster response, warehouse operations, and construction. This paper …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-robot task allocation methods: A fuzzy optimization approach

O Valero, J Antich, A Tauler-Rosselló, J Guerrero… - Information …, 2023 - Elsevier
Response-threshold methods stand out among the different developed swarm-like
methodologies that address the task allocation problem, which must be faced in multi-robot …

APF-CPP: An Artificial Potential Field Based Multi-Robot Online Coverage Path Planning Approach

Z Wang, X Zhao, J Zhang, N Yang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot coverage planning has gained significant attention in recent years. In this letter,
we introduce a novel approach called APF-CPP (Artificial Potential Field Based Multi-Robot …

An extended bayesian optimization approach to decentralized swarm robotic search

P Ghassemi, S Chowdhury - … of Computing and …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Swarm robotic search aims at searching targets using a large number of collaborating
simple mobile robots, with applications to search and rescue and hazard localization. In this …