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This paper proposes a solution to the problem of smooth path planning for mobile robots in dynamic and unknown environments. A novel concept of Time-Warped Grid is introduced to predict the pose of obstacles in the environment and avoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Siavash Farzan , Guilherme N. DeSouza

For massive large-scale tasks, a multi-robot system (MRS) can effectively improve efficiency by utilizing each robot's different capabilities, mobility, and functionality. In this paper, we focus on the multi-robot coverage path planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Jingtao Tang , Yuan Gao , Tin Lun Lam

There is a growing demand for autonomous mobile robots capable of navigating unstructured agricultural environments. Tasks such as weed control in meadows require efficient path planning through an unordered set of coordinates while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Mahmoud Ghorab , Matthias Lorenzen

This study presents a hybrid metaheuristic for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), which integrates a genetic algorithm (GA) and a neighborhood search strategy (NS). The RCPSP consists of a set of activities that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Evgenii Goncharov

Geometric programming is an important class of optimization problems that enable practitioners to model a large variety of real-world applications, mostly in the field of engineering design. In many real life optimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-02-19 A. K. Ojha , K. K. Biswal

Due to its direct relevance to post-disaster operations, meter reading and civil refuse collection, the Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (UCARP) is an important optimisation problem. Stochastic models are critical to study as they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Jordan MacLachlan , Yi Mei , Juergen Branke , Mengjie Zhang

To address the challenges of delayed scheduling information, heavy reliance on manual labour, and low operational efficiency in traditional large-scale agricultural machinery operations, this study proposes a method for multi-agricultural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Haohao Du

Tasks scheduling is the most challenging problem in the parallel computing. Hence, the inappropriate scheduling will reduce or even abort the utilization of the true potential of the parallelization. Genetic algorithm (GA) has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Nourah Al-Angari , Abdullatif ALAbdullatif

The talk describes a general approach of a genetic algorithm for multiple objective optimization problems. A particular dominance relation between the individuals of the population is used to define a fitness operator, enabling the genetic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-03 Martin Josef Geiger

Several efforts to predict student failure rate (SFR) at school accurately still remains a core problem area faced by many in the educational sector. The procedure for forecasting SFR are rigid and most often times require data scaling or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-07-06 J. O. Orove , N. E. Osegi , B. O. Eke

In this study, we present a simple and intuitive method for accelerating optimal Reeds-Shepp path computation. Our approach uses geometrical reasoning to analyze the behavior of optimal paths, resulting in a new partitioning of the state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ibrahim Ibrahim , Wilm Decré , Jan Swevers

Routing problems such as Hamiltonian Path Problem (HPP), seeks a path to visit all the vertices in a graph while minimizing the path cost. This paper studies a variant, HPP with Probabilistic Terminals (HPP-PT), where each vertex has a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yunpeng Lyu , Chao Cao , Ji Zhang , Howie Choset , Zhongqiang Ren

Contemporary genetic programming (GP) systems for general program synthesis have been primarily concerned with evolving programs that can manipulate values from a standard set of primitive data types and simple indexed data structures. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Edward Pantridge , Thomas Helmuth

In this paper we study a multi-robot path planning problem for persistent monitoring of an environment. We represent the areas to be monitored as the vertices of a weighted graph. For each vertex, there is a constraint on the maximum time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Ahmad Bilal Asghar , Stephen L. Smith , Shreyas Sundaram

Genetic Programming (GP) is a computationally intensive technique which is naturally parallel in nature. Consequently, many attempts have been made to improve its run-time from exploiting highly parallel hardware such as GPUs. However, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Darren M. Chitty

An efficient team is essential for the company to successfully complete new projects. To solve the team formation problem considering person-job matching (TFP-PJM), a 0-1 integer programming model is constructed, which considers both…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yangyang Guo , Hao Wang , Lei He , Witold Pedrycz , P. N. Suganthan , Yanjie Song

The user-level brokers in grids consider individual application QoS requirements and minimize their cost without considering demands from other users. This results in contention for resources and sub-optimal schedules. Meta-scheduling in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-03-10 Saurabh Garg , Pramod Konugurthi , Rajkumar Buyya

This paper presents a novel method for accelerating path-planning tasks in unknown scenes with obstacles by utilizing Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) with Gradient Penalty (GP) to approximate the distribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jorge Ocampo Jimenez , Wael Suleiman

In this article we provide a comprehensive review of the different evolutionary algorithm techniques used to address multimodal optimization problems, classifying them according to the nature of their approach. On the one hand there are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Noe Casas

Multi-agent mapping is a fundamentally important capability for autonomous robot task coordination and execution in complex environments. While successful algorithms have been proposed for mapping using individual platforms, cooperative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 James Di , Ehsan Zobeidi , Alec Koppel , Nikolay Atanasov