Whether evolutionary robotics (ER) controllers evolve in simulation or on real robots, realworld performance is the true test of an evolved controller. Controllers must overcome the noise inherent in real environments to operate robots efficiently and safely. To prevent a poorly performing controller from damaging a vehicle—susceptible vehicles include statically unstable walking robots, flying...

Autonomous underwater vehicles are gradually being recognized as key assets in future combat systems. Central to this attitude is the realization that teams of vehicles acting in concerted fashion can accomplish tasks that are either too costly or simply outside the range of capabilities of single vehicles. The VSW-MCM target reacquisition problem is the primary driver of underwater multi-agent...

An optimal evacuation route plan has to be established to overcome the problem of poor coordination and uneven distribution of vehicles before or during disaster. This article introduces the evacuation vehicle routing problem (EVRP) as a new variant to the vehicle routing problem (VRP). EVRP is a process of moving vehicles from a vehicle location to the potentially flooded area (PFA), and from ...

Cooperative pathfinding is a multi-agent path planning problem where a group of vehicles searches for a corresponding set of non-conflicting space-time trajectories. Many of the practical methods for centralized solving of cooperative pathfinding problems are based on the prioritized planning strategy. However, in some domains (e.g., multi-robot teams of unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous und...

1 One of the challenging problems with autonomous vehicles is their performance at intersections. This 2 paper shows an alternative control method for the coordination of autonomous vehicles at 3 intersections. The proposed approach is grounded in multi-robot coordination and it also takes into 4 account vehicle dynamics as well as realistic communication constraints. The existing concept of 5 ...

Decentralized control methods are appealing in coordination of multiple vehicles due to their low demand for long-range communication and their robustness to single-point failures. An important approach in decentralized multi-vehicle control involves artificial potentials or digital pheromones. In this paper we explore a decentralized approach to path generation for a group of combat vehicles i...

Vehicle platoon is one of important techniques both for improving the traffic safety and for increasing the traffic network capacity. Vehicle platoon system allows vehicles to drive at the same velocity and to accelerate or brake simultaneously. In this study, we will present the velocity control algorithm of the vehicles in the vehicle platoon and then, apply it to the velocity control of the ...

in front wheels driven vehicles, fuel economy can be obtained by summing torques applied to rear wheels. on the other hand, unequal torques applied to rear wheels provides enhanced safety. in this paper, a model with seven degrees of freedom is considered for the vehicle body. thereafter, power-train subsystems are modeled. considering an electrical machine on each rear wheel, a fuzzy controlle...

In the stochastic and dynamic multi-stage vehicle routing problem, a set of vehicles collectively transports and services demands which require service at multiple spatially separated locations. Arrival times and service locations of individual demands are not known until the demand’s arrival, and vehicles are assumed to have infinite capacity and to travel with bounded velocity. The objective ...

The Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology has been used in Vehicular communication to enable short-lived safety and non-safety applications based on Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). VANETs are used by spontaneously creating a wireless network of vehicles with high mobility and fixed infrastructure....