Consensus-based auction approaches for decentralized task assignment

AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Brunet, Luc ^a,b,c   Choi, Han Lim ^a,b   How, Jonathan P ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Dept Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*  (United States)

^c Frontline Robotics   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; FLEET OPERATIONS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; CONFLICT RESOLUTION MECHANISMS; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 78651107352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-6839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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