Over the last few years, cooperative autonomous systems have become a more popular solution for accomplishing tasks that are otherwise performed by human operators. Several strides have been made with homogeneous systems of vehicles in areas of localization, formation behaviors, path planning, task allocation, and vehicle controls. This paper describes both work completed and the future goals i...

Vehicular cloud computing (VCC) system coordinates the vehicular cloud (consisting of vehicles’ computing resources) and the remote cloud properly to provide in-time services to users. Although pervious works had established the models for resource allocation in the VCC system based on semiMarkov decision processes (SMDP), few of them discussed heterogeneity of vehicles and influences of roadsi...

We introduce a new adaptive cooperative control strategy for robotic networks comprised of heterogeneous members. The proposed feedback synchronization exploits an active parameter adaptation strategy as opposed to adaptive parameter estimation of adaptive control theory. Multiple heterogeneous robots or vehicles can coordinate their motions by parameter adaptation analogous to bio-genetic muta...

The increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various commercial applications, such as precision agriculture and remote sensing, is fast contributing to a significant growth the UAV market. Also, it crucial provide continuous coverage after failures wireless network components or additional bandwidth high traffic situations. By introducing concept UAVs service (UaaS), we propose nove...

A mathematical model for the study of the behavior of a spatially distributed group of heterogeneous vehicles is introduced. We present a way to untangle the coupling between the assignment of any vehicle’s position and the assignment of all other vehicle positions by defining general sensing and moving conditions that guarantee that even when the vehicles’ motion and sensing are highly constra...

Gap maintaining behavior significantly affects the traffic flow modeling under heterogeneous traffic conditions. The clearance between two adjacent moving vehicles varies depending on several traffic conditions. From the data collected on the gap maintaining behavior it has been observed that vehicles maintain different gaps when travelling under different traffic conditions and this is also in...

This paper introduces the Double Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Stacks and Heterogeneous Demand (DVRPMSHD). This problem is a more realistic generalization of the Double Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Stacks when customers have heterogeneous demands and the demand of each customer cannot be divided among two or more vehicles. The objective of this problem is to find optimal routes...

This paper presents a cooperative control strategy for a team of aerial robotic vehicles to establish wireless airborne communication networks between distributed heterogeneous vehicles. Each aerial robot serves as a flying mobile sensor performing a reconfigurable communication relay node which enabls communication networks with static or slow-moving nodes on gorund or ocean. For distributed o...