Efficient and Fair Decentralized Task Allocation Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles

Abstract

This project produced four papers: 1) "Achieving Envy-freeness and Equitability with Monetary Transfers" addresses one of the original aims of allocating tasks and giving payments to ensure that all parties feel that the outcome was fair. Fairness can incentivize different groups of robots to cooperate; 2) "Multi-Robot Task Allocation-Complexity and Approximation" develops approximation algorithms to process the most number of tasks when there lower caps on robots requires for finish a task. It achieves a key goal of the research project of designing new algorithms for important robot-task allocation problems; 3) "A General Approximation Algorithm for Ordered Allocations" develops mathematical insights on how well CBBA type algorithms can approximate maximum welfare under submodular domains even under complex feasibility constraints. The result is central to our understanding of the welfare approximations achieved by CBBA-type algorithms. We focus on a class of algorithms that is more general than CBBA; 4) "Auction-based Allocation of Location-Specific Tasks" develops understanding of decentralized auction-based methods where the goal is minimize total distance travelled.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 21, 2022
Accession Number
AD1176789

Entities

People

  • Haris Aziz

Organizations

  • University of New South Wales

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Monitoring
  • Organizational Structure
  • Scientific Research
  • Security
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Operations Research

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control