Traveling salesperson problems for the Dubins vehicle

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1378-1391

  Savla, Ketan ^a   Frazzoli, Emilio ^b   Bullo, Francesco ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Dnamic traveling repairman problem (DTRP); Dubins traveling salesperson problem (DTSP); Euclidean traveling salesperson problem (ETSP); Uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

DNAMIC TRAVELING REPAIRMAN PROBLEM (DTRP); DUBINS TRAVELING SALESPERSON PROBLEM (DTSP); EUCLIDEAN TRAVELING SALESPERSON PROBLEM (ETSP); MOTION PLANNING; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVS);

TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

EID: 51449118659     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2008.925814     Document Type: Article

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