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Developing swarm robotics systems for real-time applications is a challenging mission. Task deadlines are among the kind of constraints which characterize a large set of real applications. This paper focuses on devising and analyzing a task allocation strategy that allows swarm robotics systems to execute tasks characterized by soft deadlines and to minimize the costs associated with missing the task deadlines.
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Khaluf, Y., Birattari, M., Hamann, H. (2014). A Swarm Robotics Approach to Task Allocation under Soft Deadlines and Negligible Switching Costs. In: del Pobil, A.P., Chinellato, E., Martinez-Martin, E., Hallam, J., Cervera, E., Morales, A. (eds) From Animals to Animats 13. SAB 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8575. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08864-8_26
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