Abstract
Currently, the European Union (EU) is focusing on a large-scale campaign dedicated to developing a competitive circular economy and expanding the single digital market. One of the main goals of this campaign is the implementation of the sustainability principles in the development and deployment cycle of the new generation technologies. This paper focuses on the fast-growing field of autonomous mobile robots and the harsh environment exploration problem. Currently, most state-of-the-art navigation methods are utilising the idea of evaluating candidate observation locations by combining different task-related criteria. However, these map building solutions are often designed for operating in near-perfect environments, neglecting such factors as the danger to the robot. In this paper, a new strategy that aims to address the safety and re-usability of the autonomous mobile agent by implementing the economic sustainability principles is proposed. A novel multi-criteria decision-making method of Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment—Single-Valued Neutrosophic Sets, namely WASPAS-SVNS, and the weight selection method of Step-Wise Weights Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) are applied to model a dynamic decision-making system. The experimental evaluation of the proposed strategy shows that increased survivability of the autonomous agent can be observed. Compared to the greedy baseline strategy, the proposed method forms the movement path which orients the autonomous agent away from dangerous obstacles.
Highlights
Due to the constantly growing human population, the demand for clean food and water, energy, raw materials for habitats and basic goods has been increasing at an unprecedented rate
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Sustainability principles were integrated into the fast-expanding field of autonomous mobile robot systems, by addressing the autonomous harsh environment exploration problem
Summary
Due to the constantly growing human population, the demand for clean food and water, energy, raw materials for habitats and basic goods has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. Trying to sustain such an economy by exhaustively using non-renewable resources is not effective and can result in the global economic collapse. To tackle this problem the paradigm of sustainable manufacturing was introduced and adopted by many businesses, countries and market groups [1]. The production price essentially depends on the first two stages and typically includes raw material, energy and manual labour costs, environment taxes, packaging and transportation price. In exceptionally effective systems the product should be highly adaptable to the customer needs and the maintenance costs should be minimised without impacting its quality
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