Consider a routing problem for a team of vehicles in the plane: target points appear randomly over time in a bounded environment and must be visited by one of the vehicles. It is desired to minimize the expected system time for the targets, i.e., the expected time elapsed between the appearance of a target point, and the instant it is visited. In this paper, such a routing problem is considered for a team of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), modeled as vehicles moving with constant forward speed along paths of bounded curvature. Three algorithms are presented, each designed for a distinct set of operating conditions. Each is proven to provide a system time within a constant factor of the optimal when operating under the ap- propriate conditions. It is shown that the optimal routing policy depends on problem parameters such as the workload per vehicle and the vehicle density in the environment. Finally, there is discussion of a phase transi- tion between two of the policies as the problem parameters are varied. In particular, for the case in which targets appear sporadically, a dimension- less parameter is identi ed which completely captures this phase transition and an estimate of the critical value of the parameter is provided.


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    Title :

    Stochastic and Dynamic Routing Problems for Multiple Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles


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    Publication date :

    2009


    Remarks:

    Enright, John J., Ketan Savla, Emilio Frazzoli, and Francesco Bullo. "Stochastic and Dynamic Routing Problems for Multiple Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles." Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (2009), vol.32:no.4 p.1152-1166.




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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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