The swiftly growing urban population of Nigeria is generating lots of tension in the cities in line with the rapid increase of vehicles. This is due to hitherto reliance on the present parking system which has no standard to check for parking spaces, hence generating problems such as traffic congestion, time wastage in search of parking slot, fuel consumption/CO emission, insecurity of vehicles...

The Cognitive Robotic System (CRS) has been developed to use the Soar cognitive architecture for the control of unmanned vehicles and has been tested on two heterogeneous ground robots: a six-legged robot (hexapod) and a wheeled robot. The CRS has been used to demonstrate the applicability of Soar for unmanned vehicles by using a Soar agent to control a robot to navigate to a target location in...

Abstract. This paper describes the implementation of a decentralized architecture for autonomous teams of aerial and ground vehicles engaged in active perception. We provide a theoretical framework based on an established approach to the underlying sensor fusion problem [3]. This provides transparent integration of information from heterogeneous sources. The approach is extended to include an i...

THE DRP (dial a ride problem) consists on determining and planifiying the operated tours of vehicles in order to satisfy the user’s requests hoping to become origin’s points to destination’s points. The DRP is bind to NPdifficult problems, in order to solve it, many researchers have been used multi objective approached methods; actually our approach consists on reducing the number of vehicles, ...

Executing complex plans for coordinating the behaviors of multiple heterogeneous agents often requires setting several parameters. For example, we are developing a decision aid for deploying a set of autonomous vehicles to perform situation assessment in a disaster relief operation. Our system, the Situated Decision Process (SDP), uses parameterized plans to coordinate these vehicles. However, ...

The problem of distributed control of heterogeneous group of vehicles in the environment with obstacles is considered. The control algorithms are based on vehicles kinematics in a two dimensional environment. The proposed algorithms are based on the principle of consideration all neighboring objects as repeller. The proposed method of decentralized group control is based on the simple local con...

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) representing the preferred network for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) based on Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications. In Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks continuous connectivity is a great challenge, due to high vehicle speed and ever changing topology of the network. Future vehicles will be fully networked and equi...

Enabling Internet to Vehicular multicast communication is fraught with challenges due to the heterogeneous nature of the two networks. While the conventional multicasting in the Internet relies on ”structured” multicast routing, it is not clear how robust can be such routing structure in vehicular networks. We study the robustness of the multicast routing structure in vehicular networks for dat...

In this paper, we continue addressing the multi-region distribution problem of petroleum products in large quantities involving the use of a fleet of tankers parked in depots. This heterogeneous fleet consists of vehicles owned by the company or of renting, non-compartmentalized and without volumeters, to serve customers from removal sites. The objective is to minimize transportation cost while...

Finding a parking space is a key problem in urban scenarios, often due to the lack of actual parking availability information for drivers. Modern vehicles, able to identify free parking spaces using standard onboard sensors, have been proven to be effective probes to measure parking availability. Nevertheless, spatio-temporal datasets resulting from probe vehicles pose significant challenges to...