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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Cares is an author, entrepreneur and thought-leader in military innovation. He consults to the most senior levels of the international defense industry and is a leading researcher in collective robotics and networked warfare. He lectures internationally at senior service colleges on the future of combat, and he develops and conducts military and business war games. Harvard Business Review selected Jeff's research to the Top 20 list of "Breakthrough Ideas for 2006," and he has been featured in such Information Age bellwethers as Wired and Fast Company . A combat veteran of the first Gulf War, Jeff's military career included multiple command tours, over a decade of service on four-star staffs, service in the Pentagon and all Fleet Headquarters, and joint and combined operations worldwide. He is a retired Navy Captain. John Dickmann, Jr is a retired U.S. Navy submarine officer. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served on active duty for 22 years in both attack and ballistic missile submarines, with shore assignments in both technical and policy organizations. Following his Navy career, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems. His research focuses on architectures of complex socio-technical systems, emphasizing operational flexibility. He has conducted studies and analysis for the Naval Sea Systems Command, DARPA, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and numerous commercial customers. Klappentext The first edited volume addressing analysis for unmanned vehicles, with focus on operations research rather than engineering The editors have a unique combination of extensive operational experience and technical expertise Chapters address a wide-ranging set of examples, domains and applications Accessible to a general readership and also informative for experts Zusammenfassung This is the first edited volume addressing analysis for unmanned vehicles and its focus is operations research ( how things should be used )! rather than engineering ( how things should be built ). Inhaltsverzeichnis About the contributors xiii Acknowledgements xix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Background and Scope 3 1.3 About the Chapters 4 References 6 2 The In¿Transit Vigilant Covering Tour Problem for Routing Unmanned Ground Vehicles 7 2.1 Introduction 7 2.2 Background 8 2.3 CTP for UGV Coverage 9 2.4 The In¿Transit Vigilant Covering Tour Problem 9 2.5 Mathematical Formulation 11 2.6 Extensions to Multiple Vehicles 14 2.7 Empirical Study 15 2.8 Analysis of Results 21 2.9 Other Extensions 24 2.10 Conclusions 25 Author Statement 25 References 25 3 Near¿Optimal Assignment of UAVs to Targets Using a Market¿Based Approach 27 3.1 Introduction 27 3.2 Problem Formulation 29 3.2.1 Inputs 29 3.2.2 Various Objective Functions 29 3.2.3 Outputs 31 3.3 Literature 31 3.3.1 Solutions to the MDVRP Variants 31 3.3.2 Market¿Based Techniques 33 3.4 The Market¿Based Solution 34 3.4.1 The Basic Market Solution 36 3.4.2 The Hierarchical Market 37 3.4.2.1 Motivation and Rationale 37 3.4.2.2 Algorithm Details 40 3.4.3 Adaptations for the Max¿Pro Case 41 3.4.4 Summary 41 3.5 Results 42 3.5.1 Optimizing for Fuel¿Consumption (Min¿Sum) 43 3.5.2 Optimizing for Time (Min¿Max) 44 3.5.3 Optimizing for Prioritized Targets (Max¿Pro) 47 3.6 Recommendations for Implementation 51 3.7 Conclusions 52 Appendix 3.A A Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) Formulation 53 3.A.1 Sub-tour Elimination Constraints 54 References 55 4 Considering M...
