An overview of the internet of underwater things

MC Domingo - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water
that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas. Ocean …

On the role and opportunities in teamwork design for advanced multi-robot search systems

RM Francos, AM Bruckstein - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Intelligent robotic systems are becoming ever more present in our lives across a multitude of
domains such as industry, transportation, agriculture, security, healthcare and even …

Optimal control of uncertain systems using sample average approximations

C Phelps, JO Royset, Q Gong - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2016 - SIAM
In this paper, we introduce the uncertain optimal control problem of determining a control
that minimizes the expectation of an objective functional for a system with parameter …

Consistent approximation of a nonlinear optimal control problem with uncertain parameters

C Phelps, Q Gong, JO Royset, C Walton, I Kaminer - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on a non-standard constrained nonlinear optimal control problem in
which the objective functional involves an integration over a space of stochastic parameters …

A scalable sampling method to high-dimensional uncertainties for optimal and reinforcement learning-based controls

J Xie, Y Wan, K Mills, JJ Filliben… - IEEE control systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern dynamical systems often operate in environments of high-dimensional uncertainties
that modulate system dynamics in a complicated fashion. These high-dimensional …

Optimizing periodic patrols against short attacks on the line and other networks

S Alpern, T Lidbetter, K Papadaki - European Journal of Operational …, 2019 - Elsevier
On a given network, a Patroller and Attacker play the following win–lose game: The Patroller
adopts a periodic walk on the network while the Attacker chooses a node and two …

A multi‐vehicle covering tour problem with speed optimization

JT Margolis, Y Song, SJ Mason - Networks, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the multi‐vehicle covering tour problem with speed optimization, we aim to construct a set
of maximal coverage routes for a fleet of vehicles that serve (observe) a set of secondary …

Search for smart evaders with sweeping agents

RM Francos, AM Bruckstein - Robotica, 2021 - cambridge.org
Suppose in a given planar circular region, there are smart mobile evaders and we want to
find them using sweeping agents. We assume the sweeping agents are in a line formation …

2D optimal trajectory planning problem in threat environment for UUV with non-uniform radiation pattern

AA Galyaev, PV Lysenko, VP Yakhno - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Path planning is necessary in many applications using unmanned underwater vehicles
(UUVs). The main class of tasks is the planning of safe routes with minimal energy costs …

Search-trajectory optimization: Part I, formulation and theory

J Foraker, JO Royset, I Kaminer - Journal of Optimization Theory and …, 2016 - Springer
We formulate a search-trajectory optimization problem, with multiple searchers looking for
multiple targets in continuous time and space, as a parameter-distributed optimal control …