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Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) are being widely used in different applications to harness the benefits of the collective behavior of the robots instead of single robot applications. One of the most widely addressed problems is the Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) problem. In this study, an Airport Management Controller (AMC) is proposed to control a set of heterogeneous robots to prepare airplanes for their departures. The problem is addressed as a MRTA problem. The proposed approach is simulated in order to validate it. Several parameters of the simulation are varied and their effects on the proposed performance metrics are studied. The results reflected an improvement in the Total Operation Time (TOT) of the system by 80% and 70% for fixed and randomized passengers' arrival rates respectively. The results reflect the potential of the proposed AMC to handle this problem, and open the door for further investigations along this road.
El-Ansary et al. (Wed,) studied this question.