An ode to Phipps' jeep convoys
History and Overview
2016-04-15 v1 Optimization and Control
Abstract
The jeep problem was first solved by O. Helmer and N.J. Fine. But not much later, C.G. Phipps formulated a more general solution. He formulated a so-called convoy or caravan variant of the jeep problem and reduced the original problem to it. We shall refine the convoy idea of Phipps and subsequently view a more general jeep problem, which we solve for jeep convoys as well as for a single jeep. In the last section we solve Maddex' jeep problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.2937,
title = {An ode to Phipps' jeep convoys},
author = {Michiel de Bondt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2937},
year = {2016}
}
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13 pages, 2 figures