Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Large-scale multi-robot task allocation based on Ant Colony Algorithm

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Large-scale Multi-robot Task Allocation Based on Ant Colony Algorithm"
by Yu Zhang, Shuhua Liu, Jie Liu, Chenmu Yu
in the Proceedings of the Chinese Control and Decision Conference, July 2008

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

"Multi-Robot Coalition Formation"
by Lovekesh Vig and Julie A. Adams,
in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol 22, No 4, pp. 637-649, August 2006


This paper discusses robot coalition formation in the large-scale multi-robots system including loosely and tightly-coupled tasks. A task allocation mechanism based on Ant Colony Algorithm is proposed. This method adopts hierarchical architecture. In the high level, we employ Ant Colony Algorithm to find optimal allocations. Namely, each ant forms a task allocation so as to choose an undertaker for every task. In the low level, each ant forms a task-oriented robot coalition to perform a tightly-coupled task. Simulation results show that the task allocation mechanism is feasible and valid.