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Optimal Market-based Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Strategic Pricing

This paper presents a new market-based multi-robot task allocation algorithm that produces optimal assignments. Rather than adopting a buyer's “selfish” bidding.

Optimal Market-based Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Strategic Pricing

A new market-based multi-robot task allocation algorithm that produces optimal assignments that approaches auctioning from a merchant's point of view, ...

Optimal Market-based Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Strategic Pricing

... This leads to an optimized operation distribution between the operators. An optimal distribution based on the auction method is called Strategic Pricing [12] ...

Consensus-based fast and energy-efficient multi-robot task allocation

Optimal distributed allocation of the tasks can be ensured using a simple two-step algorithm. In the first step, the robots would exchange the bid-values for ...

A Comparative Study between Optimization and Market-Based ...

The two proposed approaches are used to find the optimal allocation of a number of heterogeneous robots to a number of heterogeneous tasks. The ...

Market-Based Multirobot Coordination: A Comprehensive Survey ...

... best subteam found who can then accept or reject the task at that price. ... Multi-robot task allocation strategies using auction-like mechanisms. In ...

Distributed Multirobot Task Assignment via Consensus ADMM

Liu and D. A. Shell, “Optimal market-based multi-robot task allocation via strategic pricing,” in Proc. Robot.: Sci. Syst. Conf, 2013, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 33 ...

Multi-Robot Task Allocation—Complexity and Approximation

The last cost constraint puts a restriction on each robot, which captures the case when robots have a fixed radius of action in which they can handle tasks. Our ...

A Systematic Literature Review on Multi-Robot Task Allocation

Optimal Market-based Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Strategic Pricing. In Robotics: Science and Systems, Vol. 9. 33–40. Google Scholar. [46].

A Comparative Study between Optimization and Market‐Based ...

The two proposed approaches are used to find the optimal allocation of a number of heterogeneous robots to a number of heterogeneous tasks. The ...

Multi-robot Task Allocation and Path Planning with Maximum Range ...

Additionally, to avoid redundant computations during iterations, we implemented a lazy auction strategy to speed up the convergence of the task ...

A Distributed Market-based Algorithm for the Multi-robot Assignment ...

working agent (e.g. robot) and a coordinator for allocating tasks for low-cost bidders. ... The optimal solution has been calculated using the Hungarian method2.

Auction-Based Task Allocation and Motion Planning for Multi-Robot ...

The proposed task allocation strategy leverages an auction-based method in combination with a sampling-based multi-goal motion planning.

Market-Based Complex Task Allocation for Multirobot Teams - DTIC

compute bids based on their expected profit for the tasks on offer, and the robots that can perform the tasks for the best price are awarded the resulting con-.

Goal assignment using distance cost in multi-robot exploration

In addition, we propose a novel exploration strategy considering allocation of all current goals (not only immediate goal) for each robot, which leads to the ...

Market Approaches to the Multi-Robot Task Allocation Problem

Market-based methods have received significant attention for solving the multi-robot task allocation problem. They have been used in a variety of multi-robot ...

A Convex Optimization Approach to Multi-Robot Task Allocation and ...

[34] provided a provably-good distributed task allocation methods. Their goal of task allocation is to maximize (minimize) the total payout (cost) of the robots ...

A multi-robot allocation model for multi-object based on Global ...

We then compared with other methods: Hungarian, the auction method, and the method based on game theory. The results showed that Global Optimal ...

Multi-Robot Task Allocation Strategies Using Auction-Like ...

market-based systems. Page ... Our algorithms adapt the classical auction using some threshold-based systems concepts to find the optimal number of robots.

Multi-Robot Task Allocation - CiteSeerX

optimal allocations of tasks in multi-robot systems. If instead ... In fact, an appropriately con- structed price-based market system (which the previously.