Decentralized algorithms for vehicle routing in a stochastic time-varying environment

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3357-3363

  Frazzoli, Emilio ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

AD-HOC NETWORKS; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLE ROUTING;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 14244266684     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2004.1429220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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