Optimization of Mobile Robotic Relay Operation for Minimal Average Wait Time

Ant Colony Optimization for Co-operation in Robotic Swarms

The swarm robotic concept has become a topic of extensive research in hazardous environments where a fault tolerant, robust and energy efficient approach is needed. In this paper we present behavior based algorithm for target navigation and swarm distribution over hazardous targets. This work is inspired by ant colony models. Our goal is to derive a heuristic algorithm for target localization a...

Minimal Operation Time of Energy Devices

We consider the problem of determining the minimal time for which an energy supply source should operate in order to supply a system with a desired amount of energy in finite time.

Parallel Active Learning: Eliminating Wait Time with Minimal Staleness

A practical concern for Active Learning (AL) is the amount of time human experts must wait for the next instance to label. We propose a method for eliminating this wait time independent of specific learning and scoring algorithms by making scores always available for all instances, using old (stale) scores when necessary. The time during which the expert is annotating is used to train models an...

Real-Time Optimization Approach for Mobile Robot

Cyclic production for the robotic balanced no-wait flow shop

Abstract. In a no-wait robotic flow-shop, the parts are transferred from a machine to another one by a robot and the time a part can remain on a machine is fixed. The objective is to maximize the throughput rate of the cell, i.e. to find optimal cyclic robot moves. In this paper, we consider identical parts in the balanced case (all processing times are equal). We present a conjecture which giv...