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 …

Dynamic multi-robot task allocation under uncertainty and temporal constraints

S Choudhury, JK Gupta, MJ Kochenderfer, D Sadigh… - Autonomous …, 2022 - Springer
We consider the problem of dynamically allocating tasks to multiple agents under time
window constraints and task completion uncertainty. Our objective is to minimize the number …

A review of task allocation methods for UAVs

GM Skaltsis, HS Shin, A Tsourdos - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2023 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicles, can offer solutions to a lot of problems, making it crucial to
research more and improve the task allocation methods used. In this survey, the main …

Multi-robot system for artistic pattern formation

J Alonso-Mora, A Breitenmoser, M Rufli… - … on robotics and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes work on multi-robot pattern formation. Arbitrary target patterns are
represented with an optimal robot deployment, using a method that is independent of the …

Agent-based task allocation under uncertainties in disaster environments: An approach to interval uncertainty

N Hooshangi, AA Alesheikh - International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2017 - Elsevier
The uncertainty of task allocation in disaster environments is challenging both practically
and theoretically. In real environments, agents encounter uncertain factors for the selection …

Large-scale multi-robot task allocation via dynamic partitioning and distribution

L Liu, DA Shell - Autonomous Robots, 2012 - Springer
This paper introduces an approach that scales assignment algorithms to large numbers of
robots and tasks. It is especially suitable for dynamic task allocations since both task locality …

Distributed assignment with limited communication for multi-robot multi-target tracking

Y Sung, AK Budhiraja, RK Williams, P Tokekar - Autonomous Robots, 2020 - Springer
We study the problem of tracking multiple moving targets using a team of mobile robots.
Each robot has a set of motion primitives to choose from in order to collectively maximize the …

Decentralized task allocation for surveillance systems with critical tasks

G Binetti, D Naso, B Turchiano - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of assigning a set of tasks to a set of heterogeneous
agents under the additional assumptions that some tasks must be necessarily allocated and …

Generalized permutation coded OFDM-MFSK in hybrid powerline and visible light communication

M Shimaponda-Nawa, O Kolade, L Cheng - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Channel impairments in powerline communication (PLC) and visible light communication
(VLC) technologies are one of the causes of performance degradation in hybrid PLC and …

Combining semantic and term frequency similarities for text clustering

VHA Soares, RJGB Campello… - … and Information Systems, 2019 - Springer
A key challenge for document clustering consists in finding a proper similarity measure for
text documents that enables the generation of cohesive groups. Measures based on the …