Date of Award
8-30-2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Department of Operational Sciences
First Advisor
Raymond R. Hill, PhD.
Abstract
The routing of unmanned ground vehicles for the surveillance and protection of key installations is modeled as a new variant of the Covering Tour Problem (CTP). The CTP structure provides both the routing and target sensing components of the installation protection problem. Our variant is called the in-transit Vigilant Covering Tour Problem (VCTP) and considers not only the vertex cover but also the additional edge coverage capability of the unmanned ground vehicle while sensing in-transit between vertices. The VCTP is formulated as a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) with a dual set covering structure involving vertices and edges. An empirical study compares the performance of the VCTP against the CTP on test problems modified from standard benchmark TSP problems to apply to the VCTP. The VCTP performed generally better with shorter tour lengths but at higher computational cost.
AFIT Designator
AFIT-OR-MS-ENS-12-56
DTIC Accession Number
ADA570658
Recommended Citation
Tan, Huang Teng, "The In-Transit Vigilant Covering Tour Problem of Routing Unmanned Ground Vehicles" (2012). Theses and Dissertations. 1238.
https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/1238