Solving task allocation problem in multi unmanned aerial vehicles systems using swarm intelligence

J Schwarzrock, I Zacarias, ALC Bazzan… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2018 - Elsevier
The envisaged usage of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform cooperative
tasks is a promising concept for future autonomous military systems. An important aspect to …

Repeated auctions for robust task execution by a robot team

M Nanjanath, M Gini - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2010 - Elsevier
We present empirical results of an auction-based algorithm for dynamic allocation of tasks to
robots. The results have been obtained both in simulation and using real robots. A distinctive …

Progress on agent coordination with cooperative auctions

S Koenig, P Keskinocak, C Tovey - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2010 - ojs.aaai.org
Auctions are promising decentralized methods for teams of agents to allocate and re-
allocate tasks among themselves in dynamic, partially known and time-constrained domains …

A distributed architecture for a robotic platform with aerial sensor transportation and self‐deployment capabilities

I Maza, F Caballero, J Capitan… - Journal of Field …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the architecture developed in the framework of the AWARE project for
the autonomous distributed cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

[PDF][PDF] Autonomous Agents Research in Robotics: A Report from the Trenches.

GA Kaminka - AAAI Spring Symposium: Designing Intelligent Robots, 2012 - cdn.aaai.org
This paper surveys research in robotics in the AAMAS (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems) community. It argues that the autonomous agents community can, and has, impact …

Towards efficient multiagent task allocation in the robocup rescue: a biologically-inspired approach

F Dos Santos, ALC Bazzan - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent …, 2011 - Springer
This paper addresses team formation in the RoboCup Rescue centered on task allocation.
We follow a previous approach that is based on so-called extreme teams, which have four …

[PDF][PDF] SUAAVE: Combining aerial robots and wireless networking

S Cameron, S Hailes, S Julier, S McClean, G Parr… - 2010 - ora.ox.ac.uk
The SUAAVE project is funded by EPSRC under the WINES wireless networking initiative to
consider issues of multiple aerial vehicles communicating and collaborating in performing …

Task allocation for spatially and temporally distributed tasks

J Godoy, M Gini - Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 2 …, 2013 - Springer
In multi robot task allocation, a set of tasks has to be allocated to a group of robots while
optimizing some measure (for example, fuel or time). In order to find the optimal allocation …

An ant based algorithm for task allocation in large-scale and dynamic multiagent scenarios

F dos Santos, ALC Bazzan - Proceedings of the 11th annual conference …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
This paper addresses the problem of multiagent task allocation in extreme teams. An
extreme team is composed by a large number of agents with overlap** functionality …

Heuristic routing algorithm toward scalable distributed generalized assignment problem

Y Xu, X Wang, T Sun - Soft Computing, 2018 - Springer
Distributed generalized assignment problem (D-GAP) is very popular in scalable multi-agent
systems. However, existing algorithms are either not effective or efficient in large-scale or …