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JFR
2006
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KAT-5: Robust systems for autonomous vehicle navigation in challenging and unknown terrain
Kat-5 was the fourth vehicle to make history in DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge, where for the first time ever, autonomous vehicles were able to travel through 100 miles of roug...
Paul G. Trepagnier, Jorge Nagel, Powell M. Kinney,...
JAL
2006
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Approximations for minimum and min-max vehicle routing problems
: We consider a variety of vehicle routing problems. The input to a problem consists of a graph G = (N, E) and edge lengths l(e) e E. Customers located at the vertices have to be ...
Esther M. Arkin, Refael Hassin, Asaf Levin
JFR
2008
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Terrain-based vehicle orientation estimation combining vision and inertial measurements
A novel method for estimating vehicle roll, pitch and yaw using machine vision and inertial sensors is presented that is based on matching images captured from an on-vehicle camer...
Vishisht Gupta, Sean Brennan
IOR
2006
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A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for the Dial-a-Ride Problem
In the dial-a-ride problem, users formulate requests for transportation from a specific origin to a specific destination. Transportation is carried out by vehicles providing a sha...
Jean-François Cordeau
COR
2007
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A general heuristic for vehicle routing problems
We present a unified heuristic, which is able to solve five different variants of the vehicle routing problem: the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), the capacit...
David Pisinger, Stefan Ropke
IJIIDS
2008
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A novel vehicle communication paradigm based on Cellular Networks for improving the safety in roads
: Main aim of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applied to roads is to increase their safety. To achieve this aim, many researchers are focused on developing robust and efficient...
José Santa, Rafael Toledo-Moreo, Antonio F....
EOR
2006
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Vehicle routing and crew scheduling for metropolitan mail distribution at Australia Post
This paper presents a new multi-depot combined vehicle and crew scheduling algorithm, and uses it, in conjunction with a heuristic vehicle routing algorithm, to solve the intra-ci...
B. L. Hollis, M. A. Forbes, B. E. Douglas
CVGIP
2006
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Autonomous behaviors for interactive vehicle animations
We present a method for synthesizing animations of autonomous space, water, and land-based vehicles in games or other interactive simulations. Controlling the motion of such vehic...
Jared Go, Thuc D. Vu, James J. Kuffner
IEICET
2008
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Delay Analysis of Car-to-Car Reliable Data Delivery Strategies Based on Data Mulling with Network Coding
Abstract--Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) aims to enhance vehicle navigation safety by providing an early warning system: any chance of accidents is informed through the wireless...
Joon-Sang Park, Uichin Lee, Soon-Young Oh, Mario G...
ANOR
2006
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The Vehicle Routing Problem with Demand Range
We propose and formulate the vehicle routing problem with demand range (VRPDR), a new variation on the traditional vehicle routing problem. In the VRPDR, the delivery quantity for ...
Ann Melissa Campbell