Social behavior of animals can offer solution models for missions involving a large number of heterogeneous vehicles, such as light combat ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, and unmanned underwater vehicles. We draw inspiration from the foraging techniques of bottlenose dolphins to address the problem of heterogeneous multi-agent herding. We produce a hybrid automaton model of the entire foraging...

We present a study on the cooperative control of two autonomous surface vehicles performing a caging and transport mission on the water surface. The two vehicles, connected to each other by means of a floating flexible rope, are required to capture a floating target from a given location, and transport it to a designated position. We focus on the coordination and control strategy to meet these ...

Vehicle tracking has a wide variety of applications. The image resolution of the video available from most traffic camera system is low. In many cases for tracking multi object, distinguishing them from another isn’t easy because of their similarity. In this paper we describe a method, for tracking multiple objects, where the objects are vehicles. The number of vehicles is unknown and varies. W...

In this study, a two phase hybrid heuristic approach was proposed to solve the multi-depot multi-vehicle inventory routing problem (MDMVIRP). Inventory routing problem (IRP) is one of the major issues in the supply chain networks that arise in the context of vendor managed systems (VMI) The MDMVIRP combines inventory management and routing decision. We are given on input a fleet of homogeneous ...

Autonomous vehicles are effective environmental sampling platforms whose sampling performance can be optimized by path-planning algorithms that drive vehicles to specific regions of the operational domain containing the most informative data. In this paper, we apply tools from nonlinear observability, nonlinear control, and Bayesian estimation to derive a multi-vehicle control algorithm that st...

A multi-vehicle search strategy based on the simplex algorithm is proposed. The strategy is decomposed into a hierarchical scheme with three layers. The upper layer is described by a discrete-event system. The output of this layer is a set of way-points for the vehicles and it is used by the middle layer in order to coordinate the motion of the vehicles. The lower layer drives each vehicle to a...

For electric vehiclepowertrains,many activities are performed using simulation of different components and sub-systemsand the research teachingprocess uses successfullydifferenttools.Followingthis way, expensive physical elementsare avoided,and multiple configurationscould be studied,beforegoing to next step.To capitalize on virtual results, aphysical testisnecessary, even if itis a reduced sca...

In this paper we describe the design and evaluation of the prototype vehicle for a new test-bed developed for multi-vehicle control, navigation and communication. The vehicle is designed for high reliability and easy recon guration using smart sensor and actuator interfaces. It is passively stable in pitch and roll and is actuated by ve thrusters. The actuators allow for full control of the rem...

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, ...