Article ID: | iaor19992936 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 108 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 319 |
End Page Number: | 333 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Gelenbe Erol, Cao Yonghuan |
Keywords: | military & defence |
Research on demining includes many different aspects, and in particular the design of efficient and intelligent strategies for (1) determining regions of interest using a variety of sensors, (2) detecting and classifying mines, and (3) searching for mines by autonomous agents. This paper discusses strategies for directing autonomous search based on spatio-temporal distributions. We discuss a model for search assuming that the environment is static, except for the effect of identifying mine locations. Algorithms are designed and compared for autonomously directing a robot, in the case for a single search engine carrying a single sensor.