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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Swarm Control with RRT-APF Planning and FNN Task Allocation Tested on Mobile Differential Platform.

Michal Lajčiak, Ján Vachálek

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Michal LajčiakDepartment of Mechatronics, Secondary Technical School, 01851 Dubnica nad Vahom, Slovakia.ORCID 0009-0006-6522-3442
Ján VachálekDepartment of Applied Informatics, Automation and Mechatronics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 81231 Bratislava, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0003-1533-5914

Funding

Slovak Scientific Grant Agency KEGA grant numbers: 008STU-4/2024 and 024STU-4/2023.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for centralized robotic swarm control that integrates path planning and task allocation subsystems. A swarm of agents is managed using various evaluation methods to assess performance. A feedforward neural network was developed to assign tasks to swarm agents in real time by predicting a suitability score. For centralized swarm planning, a hybrid algorithm combining Rapidly Exploring Random Tree (RRT) and Artificial Potential Field (APF) planners was implemented, incorporating a Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) solution to resolve simultaneous collisions at intersections. Additionally, experimental hardware using differential-drive, ArUco-tracked agents was developed to refine and demonstrate the proposed control solution. This paper specifically focuses on the swarm system design for applications in swarm reconfigurable manufacturing systems. Therefore, performance was evaluated on tasks that resemble such processes.

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AGV robotic agentneural network task allocationRMS smart manufacturingRRT APF path planningswarm control

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PMID40648144
PMCPMC12251918

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