Multi-robot task assignment for serving people quarantined in multiple hotels during COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efficiently combating with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been challenging for medics, police and other service providers. To reduce human interaction, multi-robot systems are promising for performing various missions such as disinfection, monitoring, temperature measurement and delivering goods to people quarantined in prescribed homes and hotels. This paper studies the task assignment problem for multiple dispersed homogeneous robots to visit a set of prescribed hotels to perform tasks such as body temperature assessment or oropharyngeal swabs for people quarantined in the hotels while trying to minimize the robots' total operation time. Each robot can move to multiple hotels sequentially within its limited maximum operation time to provide the service.

SUBMITTER: Bai X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10006103 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature