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    An application of ant algorithm for searching energy-efficient route a mobile robot takes using energy as a weighting factor
    (2014-12-10)
    Anuntachai, Anuntapat
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    Wongwirat, Olarn
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    Thammano, Arit
    A problem related to energy consumption of a mobile robot involves finding out what route the robot can take that uses the least energy. An ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) can solve this problem. However, it is applicable only for route on a flat terrain. This paper proposes an adapted ant colony optimization (adapted ACO) algorithm that is applicable for route on a rough terrain as well. This adaptation introduces a weight that is the energy expended on a route that may have upward slopes, downward slopes, and flat surfaces. Experiments were conducted to test the algorithm. The experimental results show that our adapted ACO did successfully find a route that expended the least energy, though it was not the shortest one. We also found the following interesting facts: an energy-efficient route has more downward slopes than upward ones; the energy expended increases with the steepness of the slopes along a route; and the energy expended is likely to be lower if the robot’s velocity is not constrained to be constant throughout the route.
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    Searching energy-efficient route in rough terrain for mobile robot with ant algorithm
    (2012-12-01)
    Anuntachai, Anuntapat
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    Wongwirat, Olarn
    Recently, the ant algorithm has been widely used to solve the problem for searching optimized route from various different paths. It can be applied for searching an appropriate route that consumes less energy in mobile robot area as well. However, the previous optimized routes resulting from the ant algorithms considered only in flat terrain environment. They did not mention rough terrain environment. For the rough terrain, the optimized results might not be optimized in term of energy, due to slopes contained inside. This paper presents the application of ant algorithms for searching energy-efficient route of mobile robot in the rough terrain environment. The conventional ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm and the adapted ACO algorithm are used to find the optimized routes in terms of distance and energy for comparison. The experimental results showed that, by using the speed with distance weighting factor, the adapted ACO yielded the optimized distance and energy in the flat terrain. In the rough terrain, the adapted ACO could also provide the energy-efficient routes better than the flat terrain. However, it could not be comparable with the ACO in some case and is required further improvement. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.