Optimization and Cooperative Control Strategies

Effective Algorithms for a Class of Discrete Valued Optimal Control Problems.- Minimum Time Multi-UGV Surveillance.- A Distributed Network Enabled Weapon-Target Assignment for Combat Formations.- Simultaneous Localization and Planning for Cooperative Air Munitions Via Dynamic Programming.- A New Multi-objective Control Design for Autonomous Vehicles.- Maximizing Search Coverage Using Future Path Projection for Cooperative Multiple UAVs with Limited Communication Ranges.- Operator Aided Decision Processes for UAVs in a Stochastic Environment.- Dynamics and Control of Surface Exploration Robots on Asteroids.- Trajectory Generation for Relative Guidance of Merging Aircraft.- A Comparative Study of Task Assignment and Path Planning Methods for Multi-UGV Missions.- Optimal Control of the Weapon Operating Characteristic with Control Inequality Constraints.- Autonomous Target Detection and Localization Using Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Cooperative Control of Multiple Swarms of Mobile Robots with Communication Constraints.- Towards Optimal Positioning of Surveillance UGVs.- The Maximum Weight Independent Set Problem for Data Association in Multiple Hypothesis Tracking.- New Results in Stochastic Cooperative Games: Strategic Coordination for Multi-resolution Performance Robustness.- Switching among Solvers: Collaborative Algorithms with Parameter Control.- An Event-Driven Software Architecture for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Cooperatively Locate Mobile Targets.- Robust Track Association and Fusion with Extended Feature Matching.- Optimal Cooperative Thermalling of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Model Predictive Control of Vehicle Formations.- Application of Monkey Search Meta-heuristic to Solving Instances of the Multidimensional Assignment Problem.- Robust Wireless Network Jamming Problems.- A Token-Based Approach to Sharing Beliefs in a Large Multiagent Team.- Development of a Mission Simulator for Design and Testing of C2 Algorithms and HMI Concepts across Real and Virtual Manned-Unmanned Fleets.