This paper investigates the problem of how to form coalitions in teams of heterogeneous vehicles. In particular, a coordination strategy is designed for unmanned vehicles to autonomously carry out the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) mission, which would benefit from a heterogeneous network of unmanned vehicles to search and destroy threats in an unexplored area. Inspiration for this wo...

The Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem (HVRP) is a variant of the classical Vehicle Routing Problem in which customers are served by a heterogeneous #eet of vehicles with various capacities, "xed costs, and variable costs. This article describes a tabu search heuristic for the HVRP. On a set of benchmark instances, it consistently produces high-quality solutions, including several new ...

The automotive industry is rapidly accelerating toward the development of innovative applications that feature management capabilities for data and alike in cars. In this regard, more internet vehicles solutions are emerging through advancements various wireless medium access-control technologies things. present work, we develop a short-range communication–based vehicular system to support vehi...

Recently, Cellular Automata (CA) models are developed and studied mostly for homogeneous traffic flow. In the current paper an attempt has been made to use CA models to study heterogeneous traffic flows which are common in real life situation. For a better representation of different types of vehicles, cell sizes have been reduced. A different set of CA rules to control the light and heavy vehi...

This paper discusses efforts at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) to develop a control architecture for mixed teams of ground and air vehicles. Our approach has been to consider the air vehicles, ground robots and humans as team members with different levels of authority, different communication, processing, power and mobility capabilities and also different pe...

This paper addresses a multiple depot vehicle scheduling problem (MDVSP) arising in public transportation. The general problem consists in assigning vehicles to trips while minimising the number of scheduled vehicles and the operational costs. The MDVSP considered here takes into account heterogeneous types of vehicles with complex relations among them. This special feature matches well situati...