Abstract: The Dubins traveling salesman problem (DTSP) has generated significant interest over the last decade due to its occurrence in several civil and military surveillance applications. This problem requires finding a curvature ...

Abstract: In this article, we address the problem of synthesizing communication networks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of resource constraints. UAVs can be deployed as backbone nodes in ad hoc networks that can ...

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of planning paths for a collection of identical vehicles visiting a given set of targets, such that the total lengths of their paths are minimum. Each vehicle starts at a specified location ...