Wheeled mobile robots: state of the art overview and kinematic comparison among three omnidirectional locomotion strategies

L Tagliavini, G Colucci, A Botta, P Cavallone… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2022 - Springer
In the last decades, mobile robotics has become a very interesting research topic in the field
of robotics, mainly because of population ageing and the recent pandemic emergency …

Asynchronous actor-critic for multi-agent reinforcement learning

Y Xiao, W Tan, C Amato - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Synchronizing decisions across multiple agents in realistic settings is problematic since it
requires agents to wait for other agents to terminate and communicate about termination …

Dronemap Planner: A service-oriented cloud-based management system for the Internet-of-Drones

A Koubâa, B Qureshi, MF Sriti, A Allouch, Y Javed… - Ad Hoc Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract 1 Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are
increasingly gaining interest for enabling novel commercial and civil Internet-of-Things (IoT) …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-robot exploration of unknown space using combined meta-heuristic salp swarm algorithm and deterministic coordinated multi-robot exploration

AE Romeh, S Mirjalili - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Multi-robot exploration means constructing a finite map using a group of robots in an
obstacle chaotic space. Uncertainties are reduced by distributing search tasks to robots and …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid Vulture-Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration: A Novel Algorithm for Optimization of Multi-Robot Exploration

AE Romeh, S Mirjalili, F Gul - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Exploring unknown environments using multiple robots has numerous applications in
various fields but remains a challenging task. This study proposes a novel hybrid …

Review of autonomous campus and tour guiding robots with navigation techniques

D Bose, K Mohan, M CS, M Yadav… - Australian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Autonomous robots are designed to support humans in diverse ways including
companionship and assistance, as technology evolves, the burden of physical tasks which …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical Framework and Practical Considerations for Achieving Superior Multi-Robot Exploration: Hybrid Cheetah Optimization with Intelligent Initial …

A El Romeh, S Mirjalili - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Efficient exploration in multi-robot systems is significantly influenced by the initial start
positions of the robots. This paper introduces the hybrid cheetah exploration technique with …

Learning multi-robot decentralized macro-action-based policies via a centralized q-net

Y Xiao, J Hoffman, T Xia… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many real-world multi-robot tasks, high-quality solutions often require a team of robots to
perform asynchronous actions under decentralized control. Decentralized multi-agent …

Waypoint mobile robot exploration based on biologically inspired algorithms

A Kamalova, KD Kim, SG Lee - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes stochastic exploration algorithms for mobile robot exploration
problems. Navigation with uncertain conditions in the absence of initial parameters is a …

A software architecture for service robots manipulating objects in human environments

C Nam, S Lee, J Lee, SH Cheong, DH Kim, C Kim… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a software architecture for robots providing manipulation services
autonomously in human environments. In an unstructured human environment, a service …