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  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,674 Views
33 Pages

The Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm (GWO) is a member of the swarm intelligence algorithm family, which possesses the highlights of easy realization, simple parameter settings and wide applicability. However, in some large-scale application problems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,334 Views
42 Pages

To address the limitations of mobile robots in path planning within farmland-specific environments, this paper proposes a biomimetic model: Multi-strategy Collaborative Evolution Honey Badger Algorithm (MCEHBA), MCEHBA achieves improvements through t...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Optimisation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
633 Views
41 Pages

Collaborative 3D path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dense urban airspace is difficult, which does not come from one factor alone. Buildings, flight restrictions, moving obstacles, and inter-UAV coupling all act together, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,570 Views
26 Pages

Simulation of Fire Smoke Diffusion and Personnel Evacuation in Large-Scale Complex Medical Buildings

  • Jian Wang,
  • Geng Chen,
  • Yuyan Chen,
  • Mingzhan Zhu and ,
  • Jingyuan Zheng and
  • Na Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 April 2025

To address the significant problems of high fire risk and low evacuation efficiency in large and complex medical buildings, this study uses Ezhou Hospital as the empirical object to construct a multi-dimensional threat and risk assessment and fire ev...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,140 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2023

In this paper, we investigate the algorithms for traversal exploration and path coverage of target regions using multiple agents, enabling the efficient deployment of a set of agents to cover a complex region. First, the original multi-agent path pla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing, Control and Optimization of Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,370 Views
33 Pages

22 February 2026

In response to issues such as insufficient bias in random sampling, low convergence efficiency, inadequate path search efficiency, and lack of path smoothness encountered by the traditional RRT* algorithm during path planning, an improved algorithm i...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
776 Views
27 Pages

2 March 2026

Mobile robots play an important role in promoting industrial intelligence and modernization. However, the existing obstacle avoidance path planning algorithms for mobile robots have poor stability and applicability. To this end, this paper proposes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,140 Views
18 Pages

24 August 2025

To address the logistical challenges of traffic congestion and environmental concerns associated with carbon emissions in last-mile delivery, this paper explores the potential of vehicle–drone cooperative delivery. The existing studies are pred...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,070 Views
36 Pages

25 March 2025

Network flow task management involves the efficient allocation and scheduling of data flow tasks within dynamic satellite networks, aiming to effectively address frequent changes in network topology and dynamic traffic fluctuations. Existing research...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Network and Edge Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,349 Views
21 Pages

21 September 2024

As the core technology of artificial intelligence, salient object detection (SOD) is an important approach to improve the analysis efficiency of remote sensing images by intelligently identifying key areas in images. However, existing methods that re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,581 Views
13 Pages

Multi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Full-Coverage Path-Planning Algorithm Based on Intuitive Fuzzy Decision-Making

  • Xiaomeng Zhang,
  • Xuewei Hao,
  • Lichuan Zhang,
  • Lu Liu and ,
  • Shuo Zhang and
  • Ranzhen Ren
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Aiming at the difficulty of realizing full-coverage path planning in a multi-AUV collaborative search, a multi-AUV full-coverage path-planning algorithm based on intuitionistic fuzzy decision-making is proposed. First, the state space model of the se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unmanned Marine Vehicles: Perception, Planning, Control and Swarm)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
4,546 Views
17 Pages

Collaborative operations of multiple AUVs have been becoming increasingly popular and efficient in underwater tasks of marine applications. Autonomous navigation capability and cooperative control stability of multiple AUVs are crucial and challengin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigation and Localization for Autonomous Marine Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,642 Views
33 Pages

This study addresses the challenges of long traversal paths, low efficiency, high fuel consumption, and costs in the collaborative harvesting of corn by harvesters and grain transport vehicles in hilly areas. A path-planning and collaborative schedul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Energy-Powered Agricultural Machinery and Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,604 Views
27 Pages

The growing demand for large-scale data distribution and sharing presents significant challenges to content transmission within the current TCP/IP network architecture. To address these challenges, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,338 Views
23 Pages

A Cooperative Hunting Method for Multi-USV Based on the A* Algorithm in an Environment with Obstacles

  • Zhihao Chen,
  • Zhiyao Zhao,
  • Jiping Xu,
  • Xiaoyi Wang and ,
  • Yang Lu and
  • Jiabin Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 August 2023

A single unmanned surface combatant (USV) has poor mission execution capability, so the cooperation of multiple unmanned surface ships is widely used. Cooperative hunting is an important aspect of multi USV collaborative research. Therefore, this pap...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,427 Views
19 Pages

23 October 2023

In recent years, the utilization of dual-arm robots has gained substantial prominence across various industries owing to their collaborative operational capabilities. In order to achieve collision avoidance and facilitate cooperative task completion,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,990 Views
29 Pages

Improved Sparrow Search Algorithm Based on Multistrategy Collaborative Optimization Performance and Path Planning Applications

  • Kunpeng Xu,
  • Yue Chen,
  • Xuanshuo Zhang,
  • Yizheng Ge and ,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Longhai Li and
  • Ce Guo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 December 2024

To address the problems of limited population diversity and a tendency to converge prematurely to local optima in the original sparrow search algorithm (SSA), an improved sparrow search algorithm (ISSA) based on multi-strategy collaborative optimizat...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,804 Views
27 Pages

19 February 2025

In the field of multi-robot cooperative localization and task planning, traditional filtering algorithms encounter synchronization and consistency issues during multi-source data fusion. These challenges result in cumulative localization errors and i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Navigation and Signal Processing (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,471 Views
35 Pages

7 January 2025

Accurate path planning is essential for effective regional avoidance in multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems. Existing static path-planning techniques often fail to integrate multiple information sources, resulting in diminished perfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Enhanced Emergency Response)
  • Article
  • Open Access
451 Views
54 Pages

Three-dimensional (3D) path planning for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) in typical marine operating conditions presents high-dimensional, non-convex optimization challenges due to undulating seabed topography, underwater threat sources, and coup...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications and Development of Underwater Robotics and Underwater Vision Technology, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,016 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Virtual Impedance Control of a Mobile Multi-Robot System

  • Duanne Engelbrecht,
  • Nico Steyn and
  • Karim Djouani

21 January 2021

The capabilities of collaborative robotics have transcended the conventional abilities of decentralised robots as it provides benefits such as scalability, flexibility and robustness. Collaborative robots can operate safely in complex human environme...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Control in Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,918 Views
25 Pages

15 August 2024

With the exponential growth of devices, particularly Internet of things (IoT) devices, connecting to wireless networks, existing networks face significant challenges. Spectral efficiency is crucial for uplink, which is the dominant form of asymmetric...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,136 Views
29 Pages

12 September 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in environmental monitoring, logistics, and precision agriculture. Efficient and reliable path planning is particularly critical for UAV systems operating in 3D continuous environments with mu...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence in Drones (AID))
  • Article
  • Open Access
543 Views
25 Pages

Solving Bilevel Multi-Robot Cooperative Path Planning Problems via a Memetic Framework

  • Zhixin Wang,
  • Shi Cheng,
  • Yifei Sun,
  • Sicheng Hou and
  • Mingming Zhang

14 March 2026

With the increasing use of multi-robot systems in emergency scenarios, collaborative path planning for robots has attracted greater attention. The multi-robot path-planning problem was modeled as a bilevel cooperative path planning model and solved u...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Optimization Algorithm: Theory and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,005 Views
34 Pages

This paper introduces the research progress of path planning, trajectory tracking control, and multi-machine collaborative operation systems for agricultural robots. It summarizes the development laws of 3D terrain modeling and adaptive path planning...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,193 Views
27 Pages

Cooperative Operations and Energy Replenishment Strategies for USV–UAV Systems in Dynamic Maritime Observation Missions

  • Dongying Feng,
  • Liuhua Zhang,
  • Xin Liao,
  • Jingfeng Yang and ,
  • Weilong Shen and
  • Chenguang Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 February 2026

Maritime dynamic observation missions, such as environmental monitoring, marine ranching inspection, and emergency response, typically require large-scale and high-efficiency operations in complex and variable maritime environments. Unmanned Surface...

(This article belongs to the Section Unmanned Surface and Underwater Drones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
4,944 Views
23 Pages

Collaboration and Task Planning of Turtle-Inspired Multiple Amphibious Spherical Robots

  • Liang Zheng,
  • Shuxiang Guo,
  • Yan Piao,
  • Shuoxin Gu and
  • Ruochen An

9 January 2020

Amphibious Spherical Robots (ASRs) use an electric field to communicate and collaborate effectively in a turbid water of confined spaces where other mode communication modalities failed. This paper proposes an embedded architecture formation strategy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,457 Views
21 Pages

6 November 2025

In the field of orchard harvesting, this study proposes a collaborative picking strategy for dual-arm robots, aiming to improve efficiency, reduce labor burden, and achieve precise automation. The strategy combines the Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Opt...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
813 Views
25 Pages

Distributed Task Allocation and Path Planning Strategies for Cooperative UAV Swarms

  • Jiaxiang Xu,
  • Xinru Li,
  • Yunsheng Xu,
  • Feng Zhou and ,
  • Xingchen Xiang,
  • Chen Li and
  • Tianping Deng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 May 2026

The rapid advancement of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has led to its widespread adoption in military reconnaissance, disaster monitoring, environmental inspection, and related fields. However, a single UAV often faces limitations when exe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
357 Views
35 Pages

26 June 2026

Icing and galloping disasters threaten the safe operation of power transmission lines, and effective response depends on multi-agent collaboration. To address the insufficient attention paid in existing studies to grassroots execution constraints, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
8,950 Views
24 Pages

11 May 2024

Evolutionary algorithms exhibit flexibility and global search advantages in multi-UAV path planning, effectively addressing complex constraints. However, when there are numerous obstacles in the environment, especially narrow passageways, the algorit...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,560 Views
45 Pages

Application of Multi-Strategy Controlled Rime Algorithm in Path Planning for Delivery Robots

  • Haokai Lv,
  • Qian Qian,
  • Jiawen Pan,
  • Miao Song and ,
  • Yong Feng and
  • Yingna Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

As a core component of automated logistics systems, delivery robots hold significant application value in the field of unmanned delivery. This research addresses the robot path planning problem, aiming to enhance delivery efficiency and reduce operat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,362 Views
26 Pages

26 August 2024

When dealing with UAV path planning problems, evolutionary algorithms demonstrate strong flexibility and global search capabilities. However, as the number of UAVs increases, the scale of the path planning problem grows exponentially, leading to a si...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,660 Views
16 Pages

4 January 2025

With the escalating demand for automation in chemical laboratories, multi-robot systems are assuming an increasingly prominent role in chemical laboratories, particularly in the task of transporting reagents and experimental materials. In this paper,...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,509 Views
23 Pages

A*-TEB: An Improved A* Algorithm Based on the TEB Strategy for Multi-Robot Motion Planning

  • Xu Li,
  • Tuanjie Li,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Yulin Zhang and ,
  • Ziang Li,
  • Lixiang Ban and
  • Kecheng Sun
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 October 2025

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) requires each robot to possess strong local planning capabilities while maintaining global consistency. However, existing research often fails to address both global and local planning simultaneously, resulting in c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mobile Robot Perceptions, Planning, Control and Learning: 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,202 Views
45 Pages

A Review of Research on Electric Chassis for Agricultural Machinery

  • Zeyu Sun,
  • Yiheng Ren,
  • Yiyong Jiang and
  • Ruochen Wang

11 August 2026

Agricultural machinery is rapidly developing toward electrification, intelligence, and autonomy, and the electric drive chassis has become a key technology for improving power transmission performance, operational efficiency, and energy utilization....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Vibration Control and Suspension Systems in Automotive Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
141 Views
27 Pages

27 October 2026

To address the inherent drawbacks of conventional spot-welding path-planning methods, which cannot simultaneously consider welding efficiency, energy consumption and trajectory motion stability, this paper proposes an intelligent path-planning approa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
518 Views
32 Pages

15 June 2026

To address the issues of low intelligence and weak knowledge support in traditional water resource security risk analysis and response strategy generation, this paper proposes a novel framework based on hybrid retrieval augmentation and multi-agent c...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,795 Views
26 Pages

8 December 2025

Driven by Industry 5.0, efficient obstacle avoidance of robotic arms in dynamic environments is a key bottleneck for human–robot collaboration in smart manufacturing. Traditional path planning methods such as Rapidly-exploring Random Tree and artific...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
718 Views
33 Pages

GEAR-RRT*: A Path Planning Algorithm for Complex Environments with Adaptive Informed-Ellipse Sampling and Layered Expansion

  • Wenhao Yue,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Xiangfei Kong,
  • Zhaowei Wang and ,
  • Junchao Feng and
  • Lanlan Pan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 March 2026

In complex ground environments, conventional RRT* often suffers from poor path quality and slow expansion during robot path planning. To address these issues, this paper proposes GEAR-RRT* (Goal-guided, adaptive informed-Ellipse sampling, layered obs...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
413 Views
48 Pages

Multi-UAV cooperative path planning is an important technical basis for improving offshore emergency response efficiency in complex maritime environments. However, in complex offshore environments, cooperative trajectory planning is affected not only...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
517 Views
24 Pages

To address the performance degradation caused by coupling interference between control and identification filters in the active control of ship hydraulic systems, a multi-strategy collaborative optimization algorithm based on “Signal–Amplitude–Time”...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,648 Views
32 Pages

12 October 2025

Research on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning technology in urban operation scenarios faces the challenge of multi-objective collaborative optimization. Currently, mainstream path planning algorithms, including the multi-objective particle...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,446 Views
39 Pages

21 July 2025

To address the modeling complexity and multi-objective collaborative optimization challenges in multi-depot and multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery task planning, this paper proposes a bi-layer planning framework, which comprehensively co...

(This article belongs to the Section Innovative Urban Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,190 Views
18 Pages

29 February 2024

With the increasing complexity of patrol tasks, the use of deep reinforcement learning for collaborative coverage path planning (CPP) of multi-mobile robots has become a new hotspot. Taking into account the complexity of environmental factors and ope...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,476 Views
28 Pages

21 January 2026

This paper addresses the optimization challenges in urban logistics with the aim of enhancing the sustainability of last-mile delivery. By focusing on the collaborative delivery between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UG...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,696 Views
27 Pages

Expo parks are characterized by dense crowds and a high risk of accidents. A multi-robot patrolling system equipped with multiple sensors can provide personalized services to visitors and quickly locate emergencies, effectively accelerating response...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,048 Views
18 Pages

Time-Varying Topology Formation Reconfiguration Control of the Multi-Agent System Based on the Improved Hungarian Algorithm

  • Yingxue Zhang,
  • Meng Chen,
  • Jinbao Chen,
  • Chuanzhi Chen and ,
  • Hongzhi Yu,
  • Yunxiao Zhang and
  • Xiaokang Deng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2023

Distributed time-varying formation technology for multi-agent systems is recently become a research hotspot in formation control field. However, the formation reconfiguration control technology for agents that randomly appeared to fail during maneuve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotics in Life Science Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,139 Views
16 Pages

Stakeholder Perspectives on Safety Issues in Collaborative Mobile Robots: A Case Study of Quadruped Robot Applications in a Smart Factory

  • Eutteum Go,
  • Jun Hyoung Lee,
  • So Yeong Kim,
  • Jong Sup Lee and ,
  • Hyung Hwan Kim and
  • Joong Yeon Lim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 November 2024

With the development of Industry 4.0, collaborative mobile robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in industrial settings, raising important safety considerations in human–robot interaction environments. This study examines the safety issues...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Robotics: Design and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,003 Views
26 Pages

12 December 2025

Against the backdrop of artificial intelligence (AI) empowering the medical industry, achieving symmetric coordination between patients and medical intelligent systems has emerged as a key factor in enhancing the efficacy of medical human–compu...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)

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