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) …

The unmanned aerial vehicle routing and trajectory optimisation problem, a taxonomic review

WP Coutinho, M Battarra, J Fliege - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become more and more
popular. The complexity of routing UAVs has not been fully investigated in the literature. In …

Multi-USV task planning method based on improved deep reinforcement learning

J Zhang, J Ren, Y Cui, D Fu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A safe and reliable task planning method is a prerequisite for the collaborative execution of
ocean observation data collection tasks by multiple unmanned surface vessels (multi-USVs) …

Dynamic mission planning algorithm for UAV formation in battlefield environment

J Zhang, Y Cui, J Ren - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The limited time duration and spatial instability of TSTs increase the difficulty of mission
planning for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formations, which in turn affects the task …

Modeling and simulation of dynamic ant colony's labor division for task allocation of UAV swarm

H Wu, H Li, R **ao, J Liu - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2018 - Elsevier
The problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) task allocation not only has the intrinsic
attribute of complexity, such as highly nonlinear, dynamic, highly adversarial and multi …

A novel hybrid auction algorithm for multi-UAVs dynamic task assignment

X Duan, H Liu, H Tang, Q Cai, F Zhang, X Han - IEEE access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The auction algorithm is a widely used method for task assignments. However, most existing
auction algorithms yield poor performance when applied to multi-UAVs dynamic task …

Resource sharing in cyber-physical systems: modelling framework and case studies

A Nayak, R Reyes Levalle, S Lee… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have attracted significant research interest because of their
promising applications across different domains; nonetheless, how to effectively model …

UAV virtualization for enabling heterogeneous and persistent UAV-as-a-service

N Pathak, S Misra, A Mukherjee, A Roy… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an architecture for UAV virtualization with the primary aim of
providing virtualized UAV services to multiple users by envisioning the concept of UAV-as-a …

[HTML][HTML] A hierarchical mission planning method for simultaneous arrival of multi-UAV coalition

F Yan, X Zhu, Z Zhou, J Chu - Applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Cooperative task allocation and path planning problems of multi-UAV
are becoming more and more important. The proposed mission planning method can be …

Improved two-stage task allocation of distributed UAV swarms based on an improved auction mechanism

C Tan, X Liu - International Journal of Machine Learning and …, 2024 - Springer
In order to better handle the dynamic task allocation of UAV swarms, this paper first models
the task allocation problem of UAV swarms. Then, improvements were made to the previous …