A probabilistic finite state machine based strategy for multi-target search using swarm robotics

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Jie Li, Ying Tan

Published: 2019, Last Modified: 09 Aug 2024Appl. Soft Comput. 2019EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•A mathematical model is established for the multi-target search in swarm robotics.•A novel probabilistic finite state machine based search strategy (PFSMS) is proposed.•The PFSMS has the highest efficiency and best stability in all presented strategies.•With lots of robots, the efficiency of the PFSMS is close to the optimal value.•The PFSMS strikes a good balance between parallelism and cooperative capability.