Guidance of Autonomous Amphibious Vehicles for Flood Rescue Support
Joint Authors
Ragi, Shankarachary
Tan, ChingSeong
Chong, Edwin K. P.
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-05-23
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We develop a path-planning algorithm to guide autonomous amphibious vehicles (AAVs) for flood rescue support missions.
Specifically, we develop an algorithm to control multiple AAVs to reach/rescue multiple victims (also called targets) in a flood scenario in 2D, where the flood water flows across the scene and the targets move (drifted by the flood water) along the flood stream.
A target is said to be rescued if an AAV lies within a circular region of a certain radius around the target.
The goal is to control the AAVs such that each target gets rescued while optimizing a certain performance objective.
The algorithm design is based on the theory of partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP).
In practice, POMDP problems are hard to solve exactly, so we use an approximation method called nominal belief-state optimization (NBO).
We compare the performance of the NBO approach with a greedy approach.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ragi, Shankarachary& Tan, ChingSeong& Chong, Edwin K. P.. 2013. Guidance of Autonomous Amphibious Vehicles for Flood Rescue Support. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1009722
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ragi, Shankarachary…[et al.]. Guidance of Autonomous Amphibious Vehicles for Flood Rescue Support. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1009722
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ragi, Shankarachary& Tan, ChingSeong& Chong, Edwin K. P.. Guidance of Autonomous Amphibious Vehicles for Flood Rescue Support. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1009722
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1009722