A modified Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for multi-robot stick-carrying application
Multi-robot stick-carrying problem is solved by the proposed ICFA. ICFA is fusion of motion dynamics of Firefly and Imperialist Competitive Algorithm. Modified random-walk strategy is proposed to balance exploration/exploitation. Simulation results confirm efficiency of the proposed ICFA in the state-of-art. Experiment with twin Khepera-II mobile robots is done amidst static obstacles.
imperialist competitive algorithm multi-robot stick-carrying khepera-ii co-ordination firefly algorithm