A segment anchoring-based balancing algorithm for agricultural multi-robot task allocation with energy constraints
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| author | Chen, Peng Liang, Jing Qiao, Kang-Jia Song, Hui Ma, Tian-lei Yu, Kun-Jie Yue, Cai-Tong Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Pedryc, Witold |
| author_facet | Chen, Peng Liang, Jing Qiao, Kang-Jia Song, Hui Ma, Tian-lei Yu, Kun-Jie Yue, Cai-Tong Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Pedryc, Witold |
| contents | Multi-robot systems have emerged as a key technology for addressing the efficiency and cost challenges in labor-intensive industries. In the representative scenario of smart farming, planning efficient harvesting schedules for a fleet of electric robots presents a highly challenging frontier problem. The complexity arises not only from the need to find Pareto-optimal solutions for the conflicting objectives of makespan and transportation cost, but also from the necessity to simultaneously manage payload constraints and finite battery capacity. When robot loads are dynamically updated during planned multi-trip operations, a mandatory recharge triggered by energy constraints introduces an unscheduled load reset. This interaction creates a complex cascading effect that disrupts the entire schedule and renders traditional optimization methods ineffective. To address this challenge, this paper proposes the segment anchoring-based balancing algorithm (SABA). The core of SABA lies in the organic combination of two synergistic mechanisms: the sequential anchoring and balancing mechanism, which leverages charging decisions as `anchors' to systematically reconstruct disrupted routes, while the proportional splitting-based rebalancing mechanism is responsible for the fine-grained balancing and tuning of the final solutions' makespans. Extensive comparative experiments, conducted on a real-world case study and a suite of benchmark instances, demonstrate that SABA comprehensively outperforms 6 state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of both solution convergence and diversity. This research provides a novel theoretical perspective and an effective solution for the multi-robot task allocation problem under energy constraints. |
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| spellingShingle | A segment anchoring-based balancing algorithm for agricultural multi-robot task allocation with energy constraints Chen, Peng Liang, Jing Qiao, Kang-Jia Song, Hui Ma, Tian-lei Yu, Kun-Jie Yue, Cai-Tong Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Pedryc, Witold Multiagent Systems Robotics Multi-robot systems have emerged as a key technology for addressing the efficiency and cost challenges in labor-intensive industries. In the representative scenario of smart farming, planning efficient harvesting schedules for a fleet of electric robots presents a highly challenging frontier problem. The complexity arises not only from the need to find Pareto-optimal solutions for the conflicting objectives of makespan and transportation cost, but also from the necessity to simultaneously manage payload constraints and finite battery capacity. When robot loads are dynamically updated during planned multi-trip operations, a mandatory recharge triggered by energy constraints introduces an unscheduled load reset. This interaction creates a complex cascading effect that disrupts the entire schedule and renders traditional optimization methods ineffective. To address this challenge, this paper proposes the segment anchoring-based balancing algorithm (SABA). The core of SABA lies in the organic combination of two synergistic mechanisms: the sequential anchoring and balancing mechanism, which leverages charging decisions as `anchors' to systematically reconstruct disrupted routes, while the proportional splitting-based rebalancing mechanism is responsible for the fine-grained balancing and tuning of the final solutions' makespans. Extensive comparative experiments, conducted on a real-world case study and a suite of benchmark instances, demonstrate that SABA comprehensively outperforms 6 state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of both solution convergence and diversity. This research provides a novel theoretical perspective and an effective solution for the multi-robot task allocation problem under energy constraints. |
| title | A segment anchoring-based balancing algorithm for agricultural multi-robot task allocation with energy constraints |
| topic | Multiagent Systems Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17076 |