A survey of human-centered intelligent robots: issues and challenges

W He, Z Li, CLP Chen - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent techniques foster the dissemination of new discoveries and novel technologies
that advance the ability of robots to assist and support humans. The human-centered …

Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

An intelligence-based hybrid PSO-SA for mobile robot path planning in warehouse

S Lin, A Liu, J Wang, X Kong - Journal of Computational Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Mobile robots play crucial roles in industry and commerce, and automatic guided vehicles
(AGV) are one of the primary parts of smart manufactory and intelligent logistics. Path …

Safe multi-agent reinforcement learning via shielding

I ElSayed-Aly, S Bharadwaj, C Amato, R Ehlers… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been increasingly used in a wide range of
safety-critical applications, which require guaranteed safety (eg, no unsafe states are ever …

Multi-agent plan reconfiguration under local LTL specifications

M Guo, DV Dimarogonas - The International Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a cooperative motion and task planning scheme for multi-agent systems where
the agents have independently assigned local tasks, specified as linear temporal logic …

Simultaneous task allocation and planning for temporal logic goals in heterogeneous multi-robot systems

P Schillinger, M Bürger… - … international journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper describes a framework for automatically generating optimal action-level behavior
for a team of robots based on temporal logic mission specifications under resource …

STyLuS*: A Temporal Logic Optimal Control Synthesis Algorithm for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems

Y Kantaros, MM Zavlanos - The International Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article proposes a new highly scalable and asymptotically optimal control synthesis
algorithm from linear temporal logic specifications, called STyLu S* for large-Scale optimal …

Automated composition of motion primitives for multi-robot systems from safe LTL specifications

I Saha, R Ramaithitima, V Kumar… - 2014 IEEE/RSJ …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a compositional motion planning framework for multi-robot systems based on an
encoding to satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). In our framework, the desired behavior of a …

Security-preserving multi-agent coordination for complex temporal logic tasks

X Yu, X Yin, S Li, Z Li - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the coordination of multiple agents for high-level tasks described by
linear temporal logics (LTL). The general purpose for multi-agent coordination is to …

Multi-agent planning under local LTL specifications and event-based synchronization

J Tumova, DV Dimarogonas - Automatica, 2016 - Elsevier
We study the problem of plan synthesis for multi-agent systems, to achieve complex, high-
level, long-term goals that are assigned to each agent individually. As the agents might not …