Optimization approaches for civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones: A survey

A Otto, N Agatz, J Campbell, B Golden, E Pesch - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

Analysis and control of autonomous mobility-on-demand systems

G Zardini, N Lanzetti, M Pavone… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Challenged by urbanization and increasing travel needs, existing transportation systems
need new mobility paradigms. In this article, we present the emerging concept of …

Data-enabled predictive control: In the shallows of the DeePC

J Coulson, J Lygeros, F Dörfler - 2019 18th European Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of optimal trajectory tracking for unknown systems. A novel data-
enabled predictive control (DeePC) algorithm is presented that computes optimal and safe …

Learning model predictive control for iterative tasks. a data-driven control framework

U Rosolia, F Borrelli - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A learning model predictive controller for iterative tasks is presented. The controller is
reference-free and is able to improve its performance by learning from previous iterations. A …

Planning paths for package delivery in heterogeneous multirobot teams

N Mathew, SL Smith… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the task scheduling and path planning problem for a team of
cooperating vehicles performing autonomous deliveries in urban environments. The …

Control of robotic mobility-on-demand systems: a queueing-theoretical perspective

R Zhang, M Pavone - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper we present queueing-theoretical methods for the modeling, analysis, and
control of autonomous mobility-on-demand (MOD) systems wherein robotic, self-driving …

Mean field games

PE Caines - Encyclopedia of systems and control, 2021 - Springer
The notion of the infinite population limit of large population games where agents are
realized by controlled stochastic dynamical systems is introduced. The theory of infinite …

Same‐day delivery with heterogeneous fleets of drones and vehicles

MW Ulmer, BW Thomas - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we analyze how drones can be combined with regular delivery vehicles to
improve same‐day delivery performance. To this end, we present a dynamic vehicle routing …

Multiple mobile robot task and motion planning: A survey

L Antonyshyn, J Silveira, S Givigi, J Marshall - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With recent advances in mobile robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence,
there is a growing expectation that robots are able to solve complex problems. Many of …

Same-day delivery with pickup stations and autonomous vehicles

MW Ulmer, S Streng - Computers & Operations Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Same-day delivery has become a very important challenge for e-commerce providers.
However, effective delivery concepts are still not established. In this paper, we analyze the …