Multi-Agent Foraging: state-of-the-art and research challenges

O Zedadra, N Jouandeau, H Seridi… - Complex Adaptive Systems …, 2017 - Springer
Background The foraging task is one of the canonical testbeds for cooperative robotics, in
which a collection of robots has to search and transport objects to specific storage point (s) …

Swarm foraging review: Closing the gap between proof and practice

Q Lu, GM Fricke, JC Ericksen, ME Moses - Current Robotics Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We review recent research on swarm robot foraging and
contextualize it with foundational work. Recent work can be divided into two complementary …

LFA: A Lévy walk and firefly-based search algorithm: Application to multi-target search and multi-robot foraging

O Zedadra, A Guerrieri, H Seridi - Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the literature, several exploration algorithms have been proposed so far. Among these,
Lévy walk is commonly used since it is proved to be more efficient than the simple random …

Chemotaxis based virtual fence for swarm robots in unbounded environments

SO Obute, MR Dogar, JH Boyle - … Living Machines 2019, Nara, Japan, July …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a novel swarm robotics application of chemotaxis behaviour observed
in microorganisms. This approach was used to cause exploration robots to return to a work …

A levy walk and firefly based multi-robots foraging algorithm

O Zedadra, A Guerrieri, H Seridi, G Fortino - Internet and Distributed …, 2019 - Springer
Foraging constitutes one of the main benchmarks in robotic problems. It is known as the act
of searching for objects/tokens and, when found, transport them to one or multiple locations …

Energy-aware multi-robot task allocation in persistent tasks

E Latif, Y Gui, A Munir, R Parasuraman - arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.15282, 2021 - arxiv.org
The applicability of the swarm robots to perform foraging tasks is inspired by their compact
size and cost. A considerable amount of energy is required to perform such tasks, especially …

A minimal biologically-inspired algorithm for robots foraging energy in uncertain environments

GR Andrade, JH Boyle - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
This work details the design and simulation results of a bioinspired minimalist algorithm
based on C. elegans, using autonomous agents to forage for attractant energy sources. The …

Lévy walk-based search strategy: application to destructive foraging

O Zedadra, M Idiri, N Jouandeau… - … on Programming and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper a Search strategy based on Lévy Walk is proposed. Lévy Walk increases the
diversity of solutions, and constitutes good strategies to move away from local to global …

Simple swarm foraging algorithm based on gradient computation

SO Obute, MR Dogar, JH Boyle - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07030, 2019 - arxiv.org
Swarm foraging is a common test case application for multi-robot systems. In this paper we
present a novel algorithm for controlling swarm robots with limited communication range and …

Artificial Swarm Intelligence as a Leadership Data Strategy: Qualitative Nominal Group Technique

JR Torres - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The problem is there is a tremendous amount of data to manage for corporations, today and
thus there is a need for solutions. The purpose of this study explored the premise, if a …