The multi-leader-follower game can be looked on as a generalization of the Nash equilibrium problem and the Stackelberg game, which contains several leaders and a number of followers. Recently, the multi-leader-follower game has been drawing more and more attention, for example, in electricity power markets. However, when we formulate a general multi-leader-follower game as a single-level game,...

The autonomous truck-mounted attenuator (ATMA) system is a lead–follower vehicle based on driving and connected technologies. lead truck performs maintenance tasks the road, unmanned follower alerts passing vehicles about moving work zone protects workers equipment. While ATMA has been under testing by transportation operations agencies recently, simulator-based capability supplement, especiall...

This paper studies vehicle platooning with communication channels subject to random data loss. We focus on homogeneous discrete-time platoons in a predecessor-following topology constant time headway policy. assume that each agent the platoon sends its current position immediate follower through lossy channel modeled as Bernoulli process. To reduce negative effects of loss over string stability...

The capability of following a moving target in an environment with obstacles is required as a basic and necessary function for realizing an autonomous unmanned surface vehicle (USV). Many target following scenarios involve a follower and target vehicles that may have different maneuvering capabilities. Moreover, the follower vehicle may not have prior information about the intended motion of th...

Nuclear-follower interaction is a particular kind of interspecific foraging association that includes a nuclear species, which dig in or inspect the bottom, and follower species, which access the food items made available by the nuclear. In this study we examined the effect of habitat structure on nuclear-follower relationship in a stream of Bodoquena Plateau, Central-West Brazil. Foraging asso...

This paper presents identifications of human-human interaction in which one person with limited auditory and visual perception of the environment (a follower) is guided by an agent with full perceptual capabilities (a guider) via a hard rein along a given path. We investigate several identifications of the interaction between the guider and the follower such as computational models that map sta...

Development of a functional neuronal network during embryogenesis begins with pioneer axons creating a scaffold along which later-outgrowing axons extend. The molecular mechanism used by these follower axons to navigate along pre-existing axons remains poorly understood. We isolated loss-of-function alleles of fmi-1, which caused strong axon navigation defects of pioneer and follower axons in t...

Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) technology plays a key role in Oshkosh Truck Corporation’s (Oshkosh’s) efforts to supply the American military forces and their allies with the tools they need. The US Congress has set an aggressive goal, targeting that one-third of all operational ground combat vehicles will be unmanned by 2015. In working with the armed forces to meet this goal, Oshkosh continues...