Reda Mohamed Mohamed Ghanem
Asst. Lecturer
Impact of Environmental Changes on Optimized Robotics Collective Motion for Multi-objective Coverage Tasks
The International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO) 2025 • 2025
Publication Information
Authors
Reda Ghanem; Ismail M. Ali; Kathryn Kasmarik; Matthew Garratt
Keywords
Swarm Robotics; Multi-Objective Optimization; Genetic Algorithms; Sensitivity Analysis; Complete Coverage Problems
Journal
The International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO) 2025
Publisher
Springer, Singapore
Volume
15512
Issue
Not Available
Pages
303-318
publication.type
International
Paper Link
Open Link
Supplementary Materials
Not Available
Abstract
Coverage tasks have garnered significant interest in recent years due to their applications in fields such as environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and robotic exploration. Swarm robotics has emerged as a promising approach to tackle these challenges, leveraging collective behaviors to enhance efficiency. However, the effectiveness of swarm algorithms often hinges on the careful tuning of parameters, which can be influenced by varying environmental features. This study investigates the impact of these features on the performance of optimized collective motion in swarm robotics for solving multi-objective coverage problems. Through a comprehensive sensitivity analysis, we evaluate how changes in parameters-such as arena size, number of robots, obstacle density, and obstacle structure-affect swarm performance in solving coverage problems. The analysis focuses on key performance metrics across multiple objectives: coverage percentage, coverage time, robot connectivity, and collision rates. Our findings provide critical insights into the adaptability of swarm algorithms, highlighting the importance of environmental context in optimizing swarm efficacy across competing objectives. These results contribute to the development of more robust and adaptive swarm-based solutions for multi-objective coverage tasks.
