Cooperative heterogeneous multi-robot systems: A survey

Y Rizk, M Awad, EW Tunstel - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
The emergence of the Internet of things and the widespread deployment of diverse
computing systems have led to the formation of heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MAS) …

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 …

Enabling UAV cellular with millimeter-wave communication: Potentials and approaches

Z Xiao, P Xia, XG Xia - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To support high data rate urgent or ad hoc communications, we consider mmWave UAV
cellular networks and the associated challenges and solutions. To enable fast beamforming …

A taxonomy for task allocation problems with temporal and ordering constraints

E Nunes, M Manner, H Mitiche, M Gini - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Previous work on assigning tasks to robots has proposed extensive categorizations of
allocation of tasks with and without constraints. The main contribution of this paper is a …

Multi-objective drone path planning for search and rescue with quality-of-service requirements

S Hayat, E Yanmaz, C Bettstetter, TX Brown - Autonomous Robots, 2020 - Springer
We incorporate communication into the multi-UAV path planning problem for search and
rescue missions to enable dynamic task allocation via information dissemination …

A belief propagation-based method for task allocation in open and dynamic cloud environments

Y Kong, M Zhang, D Ye - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
We propose a decentralized belief propagation-based method, PD-LBP, for multi-agent task
allocation in open and dynamic grid and cloud environments where both the sets of agents …

Fast scheduling of robot teams performing tasks with temporospatial constraints

MC Gombolay, RJ Wilcox… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The application of robotics to traditionally manual manufacturing processes requires careful
coordination between human and robotic agents in order to support safe and efficient …

Distributed task rescheduling with time constraints for the optimization of total task allocations in a multirobot system

J Turner, Q Meng, G Schaefer… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of maximizing the number of task allocations in a
distributed multirobot system under strict time constraints, where other optimization …

Multi-robot auctions for allocation of tasks with temporal constraints

E Nunes, M Gini - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
We propose an auction algorithm to allocate tasks that have temporal constraints to
cooperative robots. Temporal constraints are expressed as time windows, within which a …

Cooperative-competitive task allocation in edge computing for delay-sensitive social sensing

D Zhang, Y Ma, C Zheng, Y Zhang… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the ever-increasing data processing capabilities of edge computing devices and the
growing acceptance of running social sensing applications on such cloud-edge systems …