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Namely, the WASPAS method built under the interval-valued neutrosophic set environment (WASPAS-IVNS) and the WASPAS method built under the m-generalised q-neutrosophic set environment (WASPAS-mGqNS). The indeterminacy component of the neutrosophic set can be considered as the axis of symmetry, and neutrosophic truth and falsity membership functions are asymmetric. As these three components of the neutrosophic set are independent, one can model the input data characteristics applied in the candidate frontier assessment process, while also taking into consideration uncertain or inaccurate input data obtained by the autonomous robot sensors. The performed experiments indicate that the proposed adaptive environment exploration strategy provides better results when compared to the baseline greedy environment exploration strategies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14010179","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]],"date-time":"2022-01-17T20:49:21Z","timestamp":1642452561000},"page":"179","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Adaptive Autonomous Robot Navigation by Neutrosophic WASPAS Extensions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Rokas","family":"Semenas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Graphical Systems, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio Ave. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6284-0406","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Romualdas","family":"Bausys","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Graphical Systems, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio Ave. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"De Cubber, G., Doroftei, D., Rudin, K., Berns, K., Matos, A., Serrano, D., Sanchez, J., Govindaraj, S., Bedkowski, J., and Roda, R. 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