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Area of Science:

  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Operations Research

Background:

  • Dynamic deployment of multiple robots in real-world applications is crucial for tasks like exploration.
  • Minimizing distance cost in multi-robot task allocation is an NP-hard problem, requiring efficient solutions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel framework for team-based multi-robot task allocation and path planning.
  • To minimize the traveled distance between robots and their assigned goals in exploration missions.

Main Methods:

  • A convex optimization-based distance optimal model is proposed to minimize travel distance.
  • The framework integrates task decomposition, team clustering, convex optimization for deployment, Delaunay triangulation refinement, and a self-organizing map-based neural network (SOMNN) for local allocation and path planning.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework effectively fuses task decomposition, allocation, and path planning for multi-robot systems.
  • Convex optimization is used to approximate robot team shapes and minimize distances, followed by Delaunay triangulation for location refinement.
  • A SOMNN paradigm enables dynamic sub-task allocation and local path planning within robot teams.

Conclusions:

  • The developed hybrid framework offers an effective and efficient solution for complex multi-robot task allocation and path planning problems.
  • The approach addresses the NP-hard nature of distance minimization in dynamic robot deployments.
  • Simulation studies validate the framework's effectiveness and efficiency in robot exploration missions.