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LR
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
Routing automated guided vehicles in container terminals through the Q-learning technique
This paper suggests a routing method for automated guided vehicles in port terminals that uses the Q-learning technique. One of the most important issues for the efficient operati...
Su Min Jeon, Kap Hwan Kim, Herbert Kopfer
JSAC
2011
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Probabilistic Delay Control and Road Side Unit Placement for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks with Disrupted Connectivity
—This paper studies the multihop packet delivery delay in a low density vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). We address a disrupted vehicle-to-infrastructure communication scenario,...
Atef Abdrabou, Weihua Zhuang
CDC
2010
IEEE
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A lower bound for controlled Lagrangian particle tracking error
Abstract-- Autonomous underwater vehicles are flexible mobile platforms for ocean sampling and surveillance missions. However, navigation of these vehicles in unstructured, highly ...
Klementyna Szwaykowska, Fumin Zhang
IJRR
2010
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13 years 1 months ago
On the Design and Use of a Micro Air Vehicle to Track and Avoid Adversaries
The MAV '08 competition focused on the problem of using air and ground vehicles to locate and rescue hostages being held in a remote building. To execute this mission, a numbe...
Ruijie He, Abraham Bachrach, Michael Achtelik, Alb...
MASS
2010
186views Communications» more  MASS 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
VAN: Vehicle-assisted shortest-time path navigation
Traffic congestion is a very serious problem in large cities. With the number of vehicles increasing rapidly, especially in cities whose economy is booming, the situation is gettin...
Wenping Chen, Sencun Zhu, Deying Li
ICRA
2010
IEEE
158views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
A measurement distribution framework for cooperative navigation using multiple AUVs
Abstract-- In recent years underwater survey and surveillance missions with more than a single Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) have become more common thanks to more reliable a...
Maurice F. Fallon, Georgios Papadopoulos, John J. ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
119views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Optimal motion primitives for multi-UAV convoy protection
In this paper we study the problem of controlling a number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide convoy protection to a group of ground vehicles. The UAVs are modeled as Du...
Amirreza Rahmani, Xu Chu Ding, Magnus Egerstedt
CONEXT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Enabling high-bandwidth vehicular content distribution
Abstract -- We present VCD, a novel system for enabling high-bandwidth content distribution in vehicular networks. In VCD, a vehicle opportunistically communicates with nearby acce...
Upendra Shevade, Yi-Chao Chen, Lili Qiu, Yin Zhang...
JIRS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
On the Generation of Trajectories for Multiple UAVs in Environments with Obstacles
Abstract This paper presents a methodology based on a variation of the Rapidlyexploring Random Trees (RRTs) that generates feasible trajectories for a team of autonomous aerial veh...
Armando Alves Neto, Douglas Guimarães Macha...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
182views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Informative path planning for an autonomous underwater vehicle
Abstract— We present a path planning method for autonomous underwater vehicles in order to maximize mutual information. We adapt a method previously used for surface vehicles, an...
Jonathan Binney, Andreas Krause, Gaurav S. Sukhatm...