Use of mobile robots for an optimized path planning has gained a significant attention over the past few years. With an increased demand for an optimized path planning in the shortest time possible ...

In recent years, the scholarly community has increasingly turned its attention to nature-inspired optimization algorithms, recognizing their efficacy in addressing complex optimization challenges.

Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a source mask optimization (SMO) technique using the covariance ...