Beyond robustness: A taxonomy of approaches towards resilient multi-robot systems

A Prorok, M Malencia, L Carlone, GS Sukhatme… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Robustness is key to engineering, automation, and science as a whole. However, the
property of robustness is often underpinned by costly requirements such as over …

Mission specification patterns for mobile robots: Providing support for quantitative properties

C Menghi, C Tsigkanos, M Askarpour… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With many applications across domains as diverse as logistics, healthcare, and agriculture,
service robots are in increasingly high demand. Nevertheless, the designers of these robots …

Redundant robot assignment on graphs with uncertain edge costs

A Prorok - Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 14th …, 2019 - Springer
We provide a framework for the assignment of multiple robots to goal locations, when robot
travel times are uncertain. Our premise is that time is the most valuable asset in the system …

Sensor assignment algorithms to improve observability while tracking targets

L Zhou, P Tokekar - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study two sensor assignment problems for multitarget tracking with the goal
of improving the observability of the underlying estimator. We consider various measures of …

A statistical physics characterization of the complex systems dynamics: Quantifying complexity from spatio-temporal interactions

H Koorehdavoudi, P Bogdan - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Biological systems are frequently categorized as complex systems due to their capabilities of
generating spatio-temporal structures from apparent random decisions. In spite of research …

Robust assignment using redundant robots on transport networks with uncertain travel time

A Prorok - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers the problem of assigning mobile robots to goals on transport networks
with uncertain and potentially correlated information about travel times. Our aim is to …

Analyzing the sensitivity of the optimal assignment in probabilistic multi-robot task allocation

C Nam, DA Shell - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider multi-robot teams operating in uncertain dynamic settings where the costs used
for computing task-allocations are not known exactly. In such cases, the desire to minimize …

Victims search, identification, and evacuation with heterogeneous robot networks for search and rescue

D Yanguas-Rojas, GA Cardona… - 2017 IEEE 3rd …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a control strategy for multiple heterogeneous robots oriented to the
assistance in situations of search and rescue from two complementary perspectives, the real …

Multi-robot task allocation for optional tasks with hidden workload: Using a model-based hyper-heuristic strategy

F Yan, K Di, B Ge, L Liu, Z Wang, W Fan… - Engineering Applications of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is a classical problem in multi-robot systems. This paper
analyzes the situations where the objective of the robots is to minimize the time cost of …

Assignment algorithms for multi-robot multi-target tracking with sufficient and limited sensing capability

P Li, L Zhou - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of assigning robots with actions to track targets. The objective is to
optimize the robot team's tracking quality which can be defined as the reduction in the …