Multi-robot persistent surveillance planning as a vehicle routing problem

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 569-575

  Stump, Ethan ^a   Michael, Nathan ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME; EXACT METHODS; HARDWARE TESTBEDS; LOGISTICS PROBLEMS; LONG TERM SIMULATION; MULTIPLE UAVS; MULTIROBOTS; PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE; ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH TIME WINDOWS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; NETWORK ROUTING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; VEHICLE ROUTING;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 82455168206     PISSN: 21618070     EISSN: 21618089     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CASE.2011.6042503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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