Review on state-of-the-art dynamic task allocation strategies for multiple-robot systems

N Seenu, KC RM, MM Ramya… - Industrial Robot: the …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to present a concise review on the variant state-of-the-art dynamic
task allocation strategies. It presents a thorough discussion about the existing dynamic task …

An iterative strategy for task assignment and path planning of distributed multiple unmanned aerial vehicles

W Yao, N Qi, N Wan, Y Liu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose an iterative strategy to enhance the performance of task
assignment and path planning in applications of distributed multiple unmanned aerial …

Decentralized control of multi-robot partially observable Markov decision processes using belief space macro-actions

S Omidshafiei, AA Agha–Mohammadi… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This work focuses on solving general multi-robot planning problems in continuous spaces
with partial observability given a high-level domain description. Decentralized Partially …

An integrated multi-population genetic algorithm for multi-vehicle task assignment in a drift field

X Bai, W Yan, SS Ge, M Cao - Information Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the task assignment problem for a team of autonomous
aerial/marine vehicles driven by constant thrust and maneuvering in a planar lateral drift …

A resource-oriented, decentralized auction algorithm for multirobot task allocation

DH Lee, SA Zaheer, JH Kim - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a resource-oriented, decentralized auction algorithm (RODAA) for
multirobot task allocation considering multiple resources of the robots and limited robot …

An efficient scheduling algorithm for multi-robot task allocation in assembling aircraft structures

V Tereshchuk, J Stewart, N Bykov… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient utilization of cooperating robots in the assembly of aircraft structures relies on
balancing the workload of the robots and ensuring collision-free scheduling. We cast this …

Multiple-solution optimization strategy for multirobot task allocation

L Huang, Y Ding, MC Zhou, Y Jin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple solutions are often needed because of different kinds of uncertain failures in a plan
execution process and scenarios for which precise mathematical models and constraints are …

Balanced connected task allocations for multi-robot systems: An exact flow-based integer program and an approximate tree-based genetic algorithm

X Zhou, H Wang, B Ding, T Hu, S Shang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Task allocation for a multi-robot system is often imposed with various constraints to promote
efficiency and avoid unwanted consequences. This study focuses on the min-max balanced …

Decision-Theoretic Approaches for Robotic Environmental Monitoring--A Survey

Y Sung, J Das, P Tokekar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02698, 2023 - arxiv.org
Robotics has dramatically increased our ability to gather data about our environments. This
is an opportune time for the robotics and algorithms community to come together to …

Distributed multi‐vehicle task assignment in a time‐invariant drift field with obstacles

X Bai, W Yan, M Cao, D Xue - IET Control Theory & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the task assignment problem where a fleet of dispersed vehicles
needs to visit multiple target locations in a time‐invariant drift field with obstacles while trying …