Recent Developments in Cooperative Control and Optimization

✍ Scribed by Ali Ahmadzadeh, Bijan Sayyar-Roudsari (auth.), Sergiy Butenko, Robert Murphey, Panos M. Pardalos (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 461
• Series: Cooperative Systems 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the past several years, cooperative control and optimization has un­ questionably been established as one of the most important areas of research in the military sciences. Even so, cooperative control and optimization tran­ scends the military in its scope -having become quite relevant to a broad class of systems with many exciting, commercial, applications. One reason for all the excitement is that research has been so incredibly diverse -spanning many scientific and engineering disciplines. This latest volume in the Cooperative Systems book series clearly illustrates this trend towards diversity and creative thought. And no wonder, cooperative systems are among the hardest systems control science has endeavored to study, hence creative approaches to model­ ing, analysis, and synthesis are a must! The definition of cooperation itself is a slippery issue. As you will see in this and previous volumes, cooperation has been cast into many different roles and therefore has assumed many diverse meanings. Perhaps the most we can say which unites these disparate concepts is that cooperation (1) requires more than one entity, (2) the entities must have some dynamic behavior that influences the decision space, (3) the entities share at least one common objective, and (4) entities are able to share information about themselves and their environment. Optimization and control have long been active fields of research in engi­ neering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
A Hybrid Projected Gradient-Evolutionary Search Algorithm for Capacitated Multi-Source Multiuavs Scheduling with Time Windows....Pages 1-21
Progress in Cooperative Volume Holographic Imaging....Pages 23-44
Properties of No-Depot MIN-MAX 2-Traveling-Salesmen Problem....Pages 45-59
A New Heuristic for the Minimum Connected Dominating Set Problem on Ad Hoc Wireless Networks....Pages 61-73
A Platform for Cooperative and Coordinated Control of Multiple Vehicles....Pages 75-104
Churning: Repeated Optimization and Cooperative Instability....Pages 105-116
A Hospitability Map Approach for Estimating a Mobile Targets Location....Pages 117-124
Information Theoretic Organization Principles for Autonomous Multiple-Agents....Pages 125-143
Distributed Agreement Strategies for Cooperative Control....Pages 145-165
An Integer Programming Model for Assigning Unmanned Air Vehicles to Tasks....Pages 167-173
A Theoretical Foundation for Cooperative Search, Classification, and Target Attack....Pages 175-205
Cooperative Real-Time Task Allocation among Groups of UAVs....Pages 207-224
Use of Conditional Value-at-Risk in Stochastic Programs with Poorly Defined Distributions....Pages 225-241
Sensitivity Analysis of Partially Deployed Slowdown Warning Mechanisms for Vehicle Platoons....Pages 243-259
Multi-Target Assignment and Path Planning for Groups of UAVs....Pages 261-272
Objective Functions for Bayesian Control-Theoretic Sensor Management, II: MНC-Like Approximation....Pages 273-316
Tracking Environmental Level Sets with Autonomous Vehicles....Pages 317-332
Cyclic Linearization and Decomposition of Team Game Models....Pages 333-348
Optimal Path Planning in a Threat Environment....Pages 349-406
Nonlinear Dynamics of Sea Clutters and Detection of Small Targets....Pages 407-426
Tree-Based Algorithms for the Multidimensional Assignment Problem....Pages 427-447
Predicting Pop up Threats from an Adaptive Markov Model....Pages 449-458

✦ Subjects

Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization; Optimization; Systems Theory, Control; Theory of Computation