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Aiming at the problems of low search efficiency and easily falling into a local optimum of the current odor source localization strategies, the paper proposes the adaptive space-aware Infotaxis II algorithm. To improve the tracking efficiency of robots, a new reward function is designed by considering the space information and emphasizing the exploration behavior of robots. Considering the enhancement in exploratory behavior, an adaptive navigation-updated mechanism is proposed to adjust the movement range of robots in real time through information entropy to avoid an excessive exploration behavior during the search process, which may lead the robot to fall into a local optimum. Subsequently, an improved adaptive cosine salp swarm algorithm is applied to confirm the optimal information adaptive parameter. Comparative simulation experiments between ASAInfotaxis II and the classical search strategies are carried out in 2D and 3D scenarios regarding the search efficiency and search behavior, which show that ASAInfotaxis II is competent to improve the search efficiency to a larger extent and achieves a better balance between exploration and exploitation behaviors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e26040302","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,29]],"date-time":"2024-03-29T06:33:16Z","timestamp":1711693996000},"page":"302","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Adaptive Space-Aware Infotaxis II as a Strategy for Odor Source Localization"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0847-7773","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shiqi","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Innovation and Research Institute, Hebei University of Technology, Shijiazhuang 050299, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Innovation and Research Institute, Hebei University of Technology, Shijiazhuang 050299, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0091-4182","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shurui","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Innovation and Research Institute, Hebei University of Technology, Shijiazhuang 050299, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"190","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jlp.2017.09.016","article-title":"A probabilistic visual-flowcharting-based model for consequence assessment of fire and explosion events involving leaks of flammable gases","volume":"50","author":"Khalil","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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