Multi-robot coordination analysis, taxonomy, challenges and future scope

JK Verma, V Ranga - Journal of intelligent & robotic systems, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Recently, Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) have attained considerable recognition
because of their efficiency and applicability in different types of real-life applications. This …

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 …

Distributed allocation and scheduling of tasks with cross-schedule dependencies for heterogeneous multi-robot teams

BA Ferreira, T Petrović, M Orsag… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To enable safe and efficient use of multi-robot systems in everyday life, a robust and fast
method for coordinating their actions must be developed. In this paper, we present a …

Distributed control of robotic swarms from reactive high-level specifications

J Chen, R Sun, H Kress-Gazit - 2021 IEEE 17th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a distributed strategy for automatically synthesizing controls for robotic
swarms such that they achieve reactive, high-level formation tasks. In our framework, a user …

Hierarchical motion planning under probabilistic temporal tasks and safe-return constraints

M Guo, T Liao, J Wang, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is crucial for robotic missions within an uncertain environment. Common safety
requirements such as collision avoidance are only state-dependent, which can be restrictive …

Hierarchical LTL-task mdps for multi-agent coordination through auctioning and learning

P Schillinger, M Bürger… - The international journal …, 2019 - diva-portal.org
Given a temporal behavior specification and a team of agents available for execution in a
stochastic environment, it is still an open problem how to efficiently decompose and allocate …

Planning, execution, and adaptation for multi-robot systems using probabilistic and temporal planning

Y Carreno, JHA Ng, Y Petillot… - … Agents and Multiagent …, 2022 - researchportal.hw.ac.uk
Planning for multi-robot coordination during long horizon missions in complex environments
need to consider resources, temporal constraints, and uncertainty. This could be …

Negotiated path planning for non-cooperative multi-robot systems

A Gautier, A Stephens, B Lacerda, N Hawes… - 2022 - ora.ox.ac.uk
As autonomous systems are deployed at a large scale in both public and private spaces,
robots owned and operated by competing organisations will be required to interact …

Multi-unit auctions for allocating chance-constrained resources

A Gautier, B Lacerda, N Hawes… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Sharing scarce resources is a key challenge in multi-agent interaction, especially when
individual agents are uncertain about their future consumption. We present a new auction …

Multi-robot task allocation for safe planning against stochastic hazard dynamics

D Tihanyi, Y Lu, O Karaca… - 2023 European Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address multi-robot safe mission planning in uncertain dynamic environments. This
problem arises in safety-critical exploration, surveillance, and emergency rescue missions …