Multi-objective multi-agent decision making: a utility-based analysis and survey

R Rădulescu, P Mannion, DM Roijers… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2020 - Springer
The majority of multi-agent system implementations aim to optimise agents' policies with
respect to a single objective, despite the fact that many real-world problem domains are …

Particle swarm optimization for cooperative multi-robot task allocation: a multi-objective approach

C Wei, Z Ji, B Cai - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a new Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) approach
to a Cooperative MultiRobot Task Allocation (CMRTA) problem, where the robots have to …

Efficient multi-robot search for a moving target

G Hollinger, S Singh, J Djugash… - … International Journal of …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the problem of locating a mobile, non-adversarial target in an indoor
environment using multiple robotic searchers. One way to formulate this problem is to …

Efficient frontier detection for robot exploration

M Keidar, GA Kaminka - The International Journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Frontier-based exploration is the most common approach to exploration, a fundamental
problem in robotics. In frontier-based exploration, robots explore by repeatedly detecting …

Petri net plans: A framework for collaboration and coordination in multi-robot systems

VA Ziparo, L Iocchi, PU Lima, D Nardi… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2011 - Springer
Programming the behavior of multi-robot systems is a challenging task which has a key role
in develo** effective systems in many application domains. In this paper, we present Petri …

Multi-objective MDPs with conditional lexicographic reward preferences

K Wray, S Zilberstein, AI Mouaddib - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
Sequential decision problems that involve multiple objectives are prevalent. Consider for
example a driver of a semi-autonomous car who may want to optimize competing objectives …

An information-based exploration strategy for environment map** with mobile robots

F Amigoni, V Caglioti - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2010 - Elsevier
The availability of efficient map** systems to produce accurate representations of initially
unknown environments is recognized as one of the main requirements for autonomous …

Exploration strategies based on multi-criteria decision making for searching environments in rescue operations

N Basilico, F Amigoni - Autonomous Robots, 2011 - Springer
Some applications require autonomous robots to search an initially unknown environment
for static targets, without any a priori information about environment structure and target …

Bounded control law for global connectivity maintenance in cooperative multirobot systems

A Gasparri, L Sabattini, G Ulivi - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the connectivity maintenance problem for a multirobot system that
moves according to a given bounded collective control objective. We assume that the …

Post‐disaster assessment with unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey on practical implementations and research approaches

CT Recchiuto, A Sgorbissa - Journal of Field Robotics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we provide a review of the principal aspects related to search & rescue (SAR)
with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with particular interest in the phase of post‐disaster …