Optimization and Cooperative Control Strategies

by Hirsch, Michael J.; Commander, Clayton W.; Pardalos, Panos M.; Murphey, Robert

• ISBN13: 9783540880622
• ISBN10: 3540880623
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This series aims to report new developments in the fields of control and information sciences quickly, informally and at a high level. The type of material considered for publication includes:

Table of Contents

Effective Algorithms for a Class of Discrete Valued Optimal Control Problems	p. 1
Minimum Time Multi-UGV Surveillance	p. 31
A Distributed Network Enabled Weapon-Target Assignment for Combat Formations	p. 47
Simultaneous Localization and Planning for Cooperative Air Munitions Via Dynamic Programming	p. 69
A New Multi-objective Control Design for Autonomous Vehicles	p. 81
Maximizing Search Coverage Using Future Path Projection for Cooperative Multiple UAVs with Limited Communication Ranges	p. 103
Operator Aided Decision Processes for UAVs in a Stochastic Environment	p. 119
Dynamics and Control of Surface Exploration Robots on Asteroids	p. 135
Trajectory Generation for Relative Guidance of Merging Aircraft	p. 151
A Comparative Study of Task Assignment and Path Planning Methods for Multi-UGV Missions	p. 167
Optimal Control of the Weapon Operating Characteristic with Control Inequality Constraints	p. 181
Autonomous Target Detection and Localization Using Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	p. 195
Cooperative Control of Multiple Swarms of Mobile Robots with Communication Constraints	p. 207
Towards Optimal Positioning of Surveillance UGVs	p. 221
The Maximum Weight Independent Set Problem for Data Association in Multiple Hypothesis Tracking	p. 235
New Results in Stochastic Cooperative Games: Strategic Coordination for Multi-resolution Performance Robustness	p. 257
Switching among Solvers: Collaborative Algorithms with Parameter Control	p. 287
An Event-Driven Software Architecture for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Cooperatively Locate Mobile Targets	p. 299
Robust Track Association and Fusion with Extended Feature Matching	p. 319
Optimal Cooperative Thermalling of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	p. 355
Model Predictive Control of Vehicle Formations	p. 371
Application of Monkey Search Meta-heuristic to Solving Instances of the Multidimensional Assignment Problem	p. 385
Robust Wireless Network Jamming Problems	p. 399
A Token-Based Approach to Sharing Beliefs in a Large Multiagent Team	p. 417
Development of a Mission Simulator for Design and Testing of C2 Algorithms and HMI Concepts across Real and Virtual Manned-Unmanned Fleets	p. 431
Author Index	p. 459
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