Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters reported worldwide are steadily increasing each year in frequency and destructive capacity. Timely information, early warning of potential hazards, effective search andrescuetechniquesarerequiredtomitigatetherisksassociatedwiththesedisastersandreducetheirdestructiveconsequences.Thus,it was not surprising in the technological era we live in nowadays to include the search and rescue applications in the agenda of robotics research field. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to study the applicability of cooperative autonomous vehicles in search and rescue missions. The main focus of the pa- per is adaptive optimal task allocation of these vehicles as one of the main challenging problems of multi-robot systems. In the context of this paper, the problem of task assignment is handled as a multi-criteria optimization problem. A comparative study between stochastic.................
Keywords: Multi-robot systems, Optimization, Particle swarm, Hungarian algorithm, Autonomous vehicles
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