A Cooperative Dynamic Task Assignment Framework for COTSBot AUVs

This article presents a cooperative dynamic task assignment framework for a certain class of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) employed to control the outbreak of Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The problem of monitoring and controlling the COTS is transcribed into a constrained task assignment problem in which eradicating clusters of COTS, by the injection s...