An intelligent transport system capable of collecting or foraging with many robotic vehicles: An intelligent computing paradigm

Self-driving vehicles are increasingly vital for various environmental tasks, such as data gathering, remote sensing, and mapping. They are particularly important in transportation, where advanced robotic vehicles can operate effectively without human oversight in challenging conditions. One exciting application is using collaborative autonomous robotic vehicles to locate specific points of interest like accidents, congestion, rain, fog, or icy roads. This article explores multi-robot systems for transportation tasks, considering interference that may impact the robot group's performance. A mathematical model is analysed to quantify the influence of interference and transformed into a dimensionless form for analysis. The system is studied numerically, and a neural soft computing technique, LMA-NN, is proposed. The technique is established on a neural network. For performance evaluation of the LMA-NN technique, different performance benchmarks such as mean square error and absolute error with reference solution are employed. The results are also presented graphically.