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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Vítor A. Barbosa , Sunil Tiwari , Rafael A. Melo

We study a new variant of the well-studied Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW), called the fragility-constrained VRPTW, which assumes that 1) the capacity of a vehicle is organized in multiple identical stacks; 2) all items…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Clément Altman , Guy Desaulniers , Fausto Errico

This paper proposes a two-stage approach to formulate the time-optimal point-to-point motion planning problem, involving a first stage with a fixed time grid and a second stage with a variable time grid. The proposed approach brings…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Shuhao Zhang , Jan Swevers

Logistics and transport are core of many industrial and business processes. One of the most promising segments in the field is optimisation of vehicle routes. Scientific effort is focused primarily on algorithms developed in simplified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Nikica Peric , Slaven Begovic , Vinko Lesic

Real-world Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Problems (CMOPs) often contain multiple constraints, and understanding and utilizing the coupling between these constraints is crucial for solving CMOPs. However, existing Constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ruiqing Sun , Dawei Feng , Xing Zhou , Lianghao Li , Sheng Qi , Bo Ding , Yijie Wang , Rui Wang , Huaimin Wang

In the Time-Windows Unsplittable Flow on a Path problem (twUFP) we are given a resource whose available amount changes over a given time interval (modeled as the edge-capacities of a given path $G$) and a collection of tasks. Each task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Edin Husić , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

We formalise decompression planning as an optimal control problem with gas feasibility windows (ppO$_2$, END), affine ceilings, and convex penalties in normalised oversaturation. The depth trajectory is constrained to be a monotone ascent,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Benjamin Marsh

This paper proposes a novel approach to formulate time-optimal point-to-point motion planning and control under uncertainty. The approach defines a robustified two-stage Optimal Control Problem (OCP), in which stage 1, with a fixed time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Shuhao Zhang , Jan Swevers

This paper presents a new method for integrated time-optimal routing and trajectory optimization of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Our approach extends the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem by accounting for the limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Fabian Meyer , Katharina Glock

We propose a novel non-linear extension to the Orienteering Problem (OP), called the Correlated Orienteering Problem (COP). We use COP to model the planning of informative tours for the persistent monitoring of a spatiotemporal field with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Jingjin Yu , Mac Schwager , Daniela Rus

This work investigates the finite-horizon optimal covariance steering problem for discrete-time linear systems subject to both additive and multiplicative uncertainties as well as state and input chance constraints. In particular, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Jacob Knaup , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We study the problem of online convex optimization (OCO) under unknown linear constraints that are either static, or stochastically time-varying. For this problem, we introduce an algorithm that we term Optimistically Safe OCO (OSOCO) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Spencer Hutchinson , Tianyi Chen , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

When optimizing real-time systems, designers often face a challenging problem where the schedulability constraints are non-convex, non-continuous, or lack an analytical form to understand their properties. Although the optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Sen Wang , Dong Li , Shao-Yu Huang , Xuanliang Deng , Ashrarul H. Sifat , Changhee Jung , Ryan Williams , Haibo Zeng

Two multivehicle routing problems are considered in the framework that a visit to a location must take place during a specific time window in order to be counted and all time windows are the same length. In the first problem, the goal is to…

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We devise a distributed asynchronous stochastic epsilon-gradient-based algorithm to enable a network of computing and communicating nodes to solve a constrained discrete-time time-varying stochastic convex optimization problem. Each node…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Andrea Simonetto , Leon Kester , Geert Leus

We consider the solution of a stochastic convex optimization problem $\mathbb{E}[f(x;\theta^*,\xi)]$ over a closed and convex set $X$ in a regime where $\theta^*$ is unavailable and $\xi$ is a suitably defined random variable. Instead,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Hao Jiang , Uday V. Shanbhag

The Vehicle Routing Problem with pickups, deliveries and spatiotemporal service constraints ($VRPPDSTC$) is a quite challenging algorithmic problem that can be dealt with in either an offline or an online fashion. In this work, we focus on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Spyros Kontogiannis , Andreas Paraskevopoulos , Christos Zaroliagis

This paper introduces a new routing problem referred to as the vehicle routing problem with vector profits. Given a network composed of nodes (depot/sites) and arcs connecting the nodes, the problem determines routes that depart from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Dongoo Lee , Jaemyung Ahn

Many municipalities and large organizations have fleets of vehicles that need to be coordinated for tasks such as garbage collection or infrastructure inspection. Motivated by this need, this paper focuses on the common subproblem in which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Bo Liu , Xuesu Xiao , Peter Stone

Efficient optimisation algorithms have become important tools for finding high-quality solutions to hard, real-world problems such as production scheduling, timetabling, or vehicle routing. These algorithms are typically "black boxes" that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jie Liu , Tim Dwyer , Guido Tack , Samuel Gratzl , Kim Marriott