A methodology for cooperating multiple vehicles in a reconnaissance problem is proposed. A team of vehicles is used in surveying multiple targets potentially at different priority levels. The overall objective is to minimize the uncertainty on locations of targets using cooperative estimation in minimum time. Because the performance of the estimation highly depends on trajectories of observers,...

We consider n robots with limited visibility: each robot can observe other only up to a constant distance denoted as the viewing range. The operate in discrete rounds that are either fully synchronous (FSync) or semi-synchronized (SSync). Most previously studied formation problems this setting seek bring closer together (e.g., Gathering Chain-Formation). In work, we introduce Max-Line-Formation...

A continuum robot for inspecting aircraft fuel tank is designed to improve the performance of manual maintenance. Path planning for this kind of robot is challenging due to their complex kinematics models. In an environment without obstacles, a strategy of path planning is proposed in this paper. Dimension reduction method is presented and an imaginary straight line between the starting point a...

T line-planning problem is one of the fundamental problems in strategic planning of public and rail transport. It involves finding lines and corresponding frequencies in a transport network such that a given travel demand can be satisfied. There are (at least) two objectives: the transport company wishes to minimize operating costs, and the passengers want to minimize traveling times. We propos...

Some domains, such as real-time strategy (RTS) games, pose several challenges to traditional planning and machine learning techniques. In this paper, we present a novel on-line case-based planning architecture that addresses some of these problems. Our architecture addresses issues of plan acquisition, on-line plan execution, interleaved planning and execution and on-line plan adaptation. We al...

this paper presents a genetic algorithm (ga) for solving a generalized model of single-item resource-constrained aggregate production planning (app) with linear cost functions. app belongs to a class of pro-duction planning problems in which there is a single production variable representing the total production of all products. we linearize a linear mixed-integer model of app subject to hiring...

This article presents the integration of on-line mission planning and flight scheduling for an unmanned aerial vehicle in military observation missions. Planning selects and orders the best subset of observations to be carried out and schedules the observations while accommodating time windows. The vehicle is subjected to speed, fuel supply and flight constraints in a uncertain and dynamic envi...

Movement generation is the complex result of the interaction between viscoelastic properties of muscle, inertial properties of the musculo-skeletal system and spatial trajectory planning. The Equilibrium Hypothesis (EP) may simplify the control of complex biomechanical model. It however do not solve a priori the problem of trajectory planning and on-line control of speech movements. The control...