Retailers usually apply repetitive weekly delivery patterns when scheduling the workforce for shelf replenishment, defining cyclic transportation routes and managing warehouse capacities. In doing so, all logistics subsystems are jointly scheduled. Grocery products require different temperature zones. As long as transport was in separated vehicles due to requirements, it not possible coordinate...

This paper presents flight tests of a unique indoor, multi-vehicle testbed that was developed to study long duration UAV missions in a controlled environment. This testbed uses real hardware to examine research questions related to single and multi-vehicle health management, such as vehicle failures, refueling, and maintenance. The primary goal of the project is to embed health management into ...

In this research, we study a control method of a multivehicle system while considering the limitation of communication range for each vehicles. When we control networked vehicles with limitation of communication range, it is important to control the communication network structure of a multi-vehicle system in order to keep the network’s connectivity. From this, we especially aim to control the ...

In this paper we first present an extension of the macroscopic traffic flow model METANET to multi-class flows. The resulting multi-class model takes into account the differences between, e.g., fast vehicles (cars) and slow vehicles (trucks) including their possibly different free-flow speeds and critical densities. Next, we show how this model can be used in a model-based predictive control ap...

Clean energy vehicles such as EV or PHV should be promoted for the reduction of greenhouse gas emission in the transportation section. However, it is pointed out that the social interaction affects the promotion of CEV. Therefore, the multi-agent simulation system for promotion planning of CEV is developed considering with not only concern for environment but also local interaction process as s...