Multi-objective four-dimensional vehicle motion planning in large dynamic environments

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 621-634

  Wu, Paul P Y ^a   Campbell, Duncan ^a   Merz, Torsten ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heuristic algorithms; multi objective decision making; path planning; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; COST-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; FLIGHT PLANNING; GRID-BASED; LINEAR TRACKS; MOTION PLANNERS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI OBJECTIVE DECISION MAKING; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-STEP; OFFLINE; PATH PLANNING; RE-PLANNING; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION STUDIES; TIME CONSTRAINTS; TIME DIMENSION; TRAJECTORY SEGMENTS; VARIABLE LENGTH; VEHICLE MOTION; VELOCITY TRAJECTORIES;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DECISION MAKING; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

MOTION PLANNING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR VEHICLE; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROBOTICS;

EID: 79957525350     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2010.2061225     Document Type: Article

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