DoD’s transportation activities incur USD 11+Billion expenditure anually. Optimal resource allocation under uncertainty provides huge opportunity for improvement and commensurate cost savings. Stochastic optimization techniques are used to incorporate uncertainty in the data to arrive at robust resource allocations. The application of stochastic optimization extends to a broad range of areas ra...

The blossoming of electric vehicles gives rise to a new vehicle routing problem (VRP) called capacitated VRP. Since charging is not as convenient refueling, both the service customers and recharging should be considered. In this article, we propose confidence-based bilevel ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm solve problem. It divides whole into upper level subproblem VRP lower fixed For sub...

The continued development of sophisticated aircraft with high fidelity control systems will enable autonomous execution of challenging tasks such as aerial refueling and close formation flight. In order to achieve such tasks in autonomous flight, an aircraft must sense other aircraft in close proximity and position itself relative to them. For example, aerial refueling requires the follower air...