Improved Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Algorithm for Multi-robot Task Assignment with Precedence Constraints

  • Xiaoshan Bai
  • , Jiahao Zou
  • , Bo Zhang
  • , Zongze Wu

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Abstract

With the application of multi-robot systems in various scenarios, the task assignment problem of multiple robots with precedence constraints has become a hot research topic, where a robot can perform a task only when all the predecessor tasks of the task have been completed. In response to this issue, this paper proposes an effective task assignment method to minimize the total time for a fleet of robots to perform multiple tasks with precedence constraints. Firstly, a greedy algorithm is used to generate the initial task assignments for multiple robots. Subsequently, the simulated annealing and adaptive large neighborhood search algorithms are integrated to improve the initial solution, where a novel insertion operator is introduced. Finally, numerous experiments show that the proposed method has superior performance for solving the precedence-constrained multi-robot task assignment problem compared with several existing popular heuristic methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 4th 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems (4th ICAUS 2024)
EditorsLianqing Liu, Yifeng Niu, Wenxing Fu, Yi Qu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages602-612
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9789819635597
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, ICAUS 2024 - Shenyang, China
Duration: 19 Sep 202421 Sep 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume1375 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, ICAUS 2024
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenyang
Period19/09/2421/09/24

Keywords

  • Multi-robot systems
  • Neighborhood search
  • Precedence constraints
  • Task assignment

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