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The Flatland Challenge, which was first held in 2019 and reported in NeurIPS 2020, is designed to answer the question: How to efficiently manage dense traffic on complex rail networks? Considering the significance of punctuality in…
In this work, we address a task allocation problem for human multi-robot settings. Given a set of tasks to perform, we formulate a general Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem aiming at minimizing the overall execution time while…
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Modern vertical take-off and landing vehicles (VTOLs) could significantly affect the future of mobility. The broad range of their application fields encompasses urban air mobility, transportation and logistics as well as reconnaissance and…
We consider the following two deterministic inventory optimization problems over a finite planning horizon $T$ with non-stationary demands. (a) Submodular Joint Replenishment Problem: This involves multiple item types and a single retailer…
We investigate a novel scheduling problem which is motivated by an application in the Australian railway industry. Given a set of maintenance jobs and a set of train paths over a railway corridor with bidirectional traffic, we seek a…
MPC (Model predictive control)-based motion planning and trajectory generation are essential in applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, robotic manipulators, and rocket control. However, the real-time implementation of such…
In this paper we present a robust mixed integer optimization model to utilize regenerative braking energy produced by trains in a railway network. An electric train produces regenerative energy during braking, which is often lost in present…
Algorithm performance in combinatorial optimization is highly sensitive to parameter settings, while a single globally tuned configuration often fails to exploit the heterogeneity of instances. This limitation is particularly evident in the…
Industrial timetabling is a critical task for decision-makers across various sectors to ensure efficient system operation. In real-world settings, it remains challenging because unexpected events often disrupt execution. When such events…
In this paper, we investigate the delay-aware dynamic resource management problem for multi-service transmission in high-speed railway wireless communications, with a focus on resource allocation among the services and power control along…
This study proposes an integrated heuristic framework for the strategic optimization of distributed maintenance operations in geo-distributed production systems (GDPS). It introduces a dual-entity maintenance structure comprising a…
In this paper we present a multi-rate control architecture for safety critical systems. We consider a high level planner and a low level controller which operate at different frequencies. This multi-rate behavior is described by a piecewise…
This paper investigates the problem of link scheduling to meet traffic demands with minimum airtime in a multi-transmit-receive (MTR) wireless network. MTR networks are a new class of networks, in which each node can simultaneously transmit…
A novel hierarchical Deep Neural Network (DNN) model is presented to address the task of end-to-end driving. The model consists of a master classifier network which determines the driving task required from an input stereo image and directs…
We study ordinal makespan scheduling on small numbers of identical machines, with respect to two parallel solutions. In ordinal scheduling, it is known that jobs are sorted by non-increasing sizes, but the specific sizes are not known in…
We consider a set of transmitter-receiver pairs, or links, that share a common channel and address the problem of emptying backlogged queues at the transmitters in minimum time. The problem amounts to determining activation subsets of links…
High-fidelity physics simulations are powerful tools in the design and optimization of charged particle accelerators. However, the computational burden of these simulations often limits their use in practice for design optimization and…
A challenging category of robotics problems arises when sensing incurs substantial costs. This paper examines settings in which a robot wishes to limit its observations of state, for instance, motivated by specific considerations of energy…
This paper investigates the scheduling problem of a fleet of electric vehicles, providing mobility as a service to a set of time-specified customers, where the operator needs to solve the routing and charging problem jointly for each EV.…