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The article is devoted to the problem of long-term monitoring of vast territories and water areas by groups of mobile robots in order to timely prevent dangerous consequences of man-made or natural accidents. A group of robots starts from the base and begins collecting data from several work areas. For this, the group must be divided into subgroups according to the number of work areas. Some of the group’s robots remain in reserve at the base. When a robot runs out of energy, it can be replaced by another robot of the subgroup, or a robot from the reserve. In this paper, we propose a method and algorithms for the distribution of robots in a group into subgroups based on the multi-agent interaction of agents in working areas and agents of mobile robots. The differences between homogeneous and heterogeneous groups of robots are taken into account. The results of experimental studies are presented.
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The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-05-80092, № 19-07-00907.
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Ivanov, D. (2021). Algorithms for Multi-agent Interaction in the Distribution of Robots in a Group Between Work Areas in Long-Term Monitoring Tasks. In: Silhavy, R. (eds) Informatics and Cybernetics in Intelligent Systems. CSOC 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 228. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77448-6_23
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