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7A Cooperative Navigation for Multi-Robots in Unknown Environments Using Hybrid Jaya-DE Algorithm

D. Chandrasekhar Rao

Department of Information Technology, VSSUT, Burla, India

Abstract

Since inception robotics has emerged as a major scientific discipline, several development and research has been carried out in the past decades to improve its efficiency. The robot navigates from its predefined starting positions to the designed goal positions to perform the desired tasks as assigned by the end-user. Safe navigation in addition to attain shortest path is of prime concern in the problem of interest. Significant effort has been made in the early research work to make robot intelligent via several algorithms to address the concern. The proposed algorithms do not substantiate solutions of interest in the case of multi-robot path planning. Furthermore, the inevitability of achieving path smoothness as well as minimizing energy requirement has made the present problem more complex. Therefore, there is a need of searching some computationally stable algorithms that can provide the desired solutions with less computational burden. The emerging of meta-heuristic approaches has made possible of solving numerous complex engineering optimization problem because of some positive attributes such as: 1. Simple; 2. Easy to implement; 3. Robust; and 4. Computationally stable. The need of the present scenario is to figure out some meta-heuristic approaches whose architecture resembles the multi-robot ...