Information Technology Journal1812-56381812-5646Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/itj.2014.60.68ShenYi LiJianglian LiPingzheng YuanMingxin HuaXiaobin 12014131In order to solve the task allocation in the autonomous cooperation
of the multi-robot systems, a novel artificial immune network allocation model
adjusted by the leukocyte is presented in this study. Inspired by the Jernes
idiotypic immune network hypothesis, the stimulation between the antibody and
antigen and the stimulation and suppression among different antibodies are defined
firstly through regarding the B-cell, antibody and task as the robot, robot
behavior and antigen, respectively. In order to further improve the allocation
efficiency of the multi-robot systems, a novel immune network allocation model
with the leukocyte adjustment is presented according to the biological mechanisms
of the leukocyte. Moreover, the immune memory is introduced to improve the allocation
efficiency and the dynamic adaptability of the artificial immune system. Compared
with other immune algorithm, the simulation results in several environments
show that the proposed allocation algorithm obviously improves the cooperation
performance and reduces the consumption time, transport distance and energy
waste of the task, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.]]>Dong, Y.B., J.P. Jiang and Y. He,20072272277Farmer, J.D., N.H. Packard and A.S. Perelson,198622187204Gao, Y.Y. and W. Wei,20065733737Gurzoni, J.A., F. Tonidandel and R.A.C. Bianchi,20112011pp: 365376Heap, B. and M. Pagnucco,20112011pp: 412421Huang, W.N. and J.W. Gong,200611164172Ishiguro, A., Y. Shirai, T. Kondo and Y. Uchikawa,19961996pp: 17301738Jerne, N.K.,19732295260Leon, F.,20112011pp: 173180Zhiwei, L., Z. Chonghu, S. Jie, L. Juan and Z. Songhao,20132013pp: 34863491Li, P. and Y.M. Yang,20132392395Liu, S.H. and Y. Zhang,20101123129Mataric, M.J., G.S. Sukhatme and E.H. Ostergaard,20032255263Meshref, H. and H. Vanlandingham,20002000pp: 6166Nanjanath, M. and M. Gini,20062006pp: 27812786Wang, G., H. Yu, J. Xu and S. Huang,20042004pp: 282286Wang, L., Z.L. Wang, S.Q. Hu and L. Liu,20133125132Wang, Y., Y.T. Xu and X.D. Zhang,20092009pp: 102106Wu, H., G.H. Tian and B. Huang,200882731Xu, Z.Z., F. Xia and X.C. Zhang,20092009pp: 288297Zuo, Y., Z.H. Peng and X. Liu,20112011pp: 10301034