In congested urban areas, it remains a pressing challenge to reduce unnecessary vehicle circling for parking while at the same time maximize parking space utilization. In observance of new information technologies that have become readily accessible to drivers and parking agencies, we develop a dynamic non-cooperative bi-level model (i.e. Stackelberg leader-follower game) to set parking prices ...

Title of dissertation: BEYOND SIMPLE SIMILARITY: THE RELATIONSHIP OF LEADER-FOLLOWER PERSONALITY FIT WITH FOLLOWER SATISFACTION WITH THE LEADER AND FOLLOWER COMMITMENT TO THE ORGANIZATION Jessica Lynne Saltz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Katherine J. Klein Department of Psychology This dissertation examines the relationship of leader-follower personality similarity (...

This report develops a probabilistic model for analyzing longitudinal collision/safety between an abruptly decelerating vehicle and its immediate follower on an Automated Highway System. The input parameters are the distance between the two vehicles, their common speed prior to the failure, the reaction delay of the following vehicle and a bivariate distribution for the two deceleration rates. ...

In this thesis we formally model a system consisting of two vehicles moving along a single track, plus controllers that operate the vehicles, plus communication channels. The modeling formalism used is the Hybrid Automata model developed by Lynch, Segala, Vaandrager and Weinberg. We formulate a key safety requirement of such a system, namely, that the two vehicles never collide at a relative ve...

This article focuses on the modeling and controlling of Unmanned Aerial Manipulators (UAMs) in a leader/follower configuration performing cooperative manipulation task. Each UAM consists an Vehicle (UAV) with attached serial-link robotic manipulator. The Recursive Newton-Euler dynamics formulation is employed to account for interaction between UAV its overall system couple UAMs carrying load. c...

In congested urban areas, it remains a pressing challenge to reduce unnecessary vehicle circling for parking while at the same time maximize parking space utilization. In observance of new information technologies that have become readily accessible to drivers and parking agencies, we develop a dynamic non-cooperative bi-level model (i.e. Stackelberg leader-follower game) to set parking prices ...

In this paper we describe a LIDAR-based navigation approach applied at both the C-Elrob (European Land Robot Trial) 2007 and the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. At the C-Elrob 2007 the approach was used without any prior knowledge about the terrain and without global positioning system (GPS). At the Urban Challenge the approach was combined with a GPS-based path follower. At the core of the method ...

A model predictive control based algorithm for maintenance of leader-follower formations of micro-scale aerial vehicles is proposed in this paper. The approach is designed for stabilization of teams of unmanned quadrotor helicopters and for their motion planning into a distant target region. The presented method of the model predictive control with a planning horizon enables integration of an o...

Merging is, in general, a challenging task for both human drivers and autonomous vehicles, especially dense traffic, because the merging vehicle typically needs to interact with other vehicles identify or create gap safely merge into. In this paper, we consider problem of control forced scenarios. We propose novel game-theoretic controller, called Leader-Follower Game Controller (LFGC), which i...

The findings from this cross-sectional study on 27 corporate employees reveal relationships between leader and follower leadership behaviors and follower identity with the leader. A positive relationship was found between the leaders’ follower-centered leadership and followers’ follower-centered leadership, and the leaders’ capable manager leadership and followers’ capable manager leadership. F...