Task Allocation in Mobile Robot Fleets: A review

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Autori principali: Valenzuela, Andrés Meseguer, Noguera, Francisco Blanes
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author Valenzuela, Andrés Meseguer
Noguera, Francisco Blanes
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Noguera, Francisco Blanes
contents Mobile robot fleets are currently used in different scenarios such as medical environments or logistics. The management of these systems provides different challenges that vary from the control of the movement of each robot to the allocation of tasks to be performed. Task Allocation (TA) problem is a key topic for the proper management of mobile robot fleets to ensure the minimization of energy consumption and quantity of necessary robots. Solutions on this aspect are essential to reach economic and environmental sustainability of robot fleets, mainly in industry applications such as warehouse logistics. The minimization of energy consumption introduces TA problem as an optimization issue which has been treated in recent studies. This work focuses on the analysis of current trends in solving TA of mobile robot fleets. Main TA optimization algorithms are presented, including novel methods based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Additionally, this work showcases most important results extracted from simulations, including frameworks utilized for the development of the simulations. Finally, some conclusions are obtained from the analysis to target on gaps that must be treated in the future.
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spellingShingle Task Allocation in Mobile Robot Fleets: A review
Valenzuela, Andrés Meseguer
Noguera, Francisco Blanes
Robotics
Multiagent Systems
Mobile robot fleets are currently used in different scenarios such as medical environments or logistics. The management of these systems provides different challenges that vary from the control of the movement of each robot to the allocation of tasks to be performed. Task Allocation (TA) problem is a key topic for the proper management of mobile robot fleets to ensure the minimization of energy consumption and quantity of necessary robots. Solutions on this aspect are essential to reach economic and environmental sustainability of robot fleets, mainly in industry applications such as warehouse logistics. The minimization of energy consumption introduces TA problem as an optimization issue which has been treated in recent studies. This work focuses on the analysis of current trends in solving TA of mobile robot fleets. Main TA optimization algorithms are presented, including novel methods based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Additionally, this work showcases most important results extracted from simulations, including frameworks utilized for the development of the simulations. Finally, some conclusions are obtained from the analysis to target on gaps that must be treated in the future.
title Task Allocation in Mobile Robot Fleets: A review
topic Robotics
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08726