Search-and-Rescue Rendezvous
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چکیده
We consider a new type of asymmetric rendezvous search problem in which Agent II needs to give Agent I a ‘gift’ which can be in the form of information or material. The gift can either be transfered upon meeting, as in traditional rendezvous, or it can be dropped off by II at a location he passes, in the hope it will be found by I. The gift might be a water bottle for a traveller lost in the desert; a supply cache for Lieutenant Scott in the Antarctic; or important information (left as a gift). The common aim of the two agents is to minimize the time taken for I to either meet II or find the gift. We find optimal agent paths and droppoff times when the search region is a line, the initial distance between the players is known and one or both of the players can leave gifts. When there are no gifts this is the classical asymmetric rendezvous problem solved by Alpern and Gal in 1995 [10]. We exhibit strategies solving these various problems and use a ‘rendezvous algorithm’ to establish their optimality. ar X iv :1 61 1. 05 20 5v 1 [ cs .G T ] 1 6 N ov 2 01 6
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1611.05205 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016