Efficient routing of multiple vehicles with no communication

@article{Arsie2006EfficientRO,
  title={Efficient routing of multiple vehicles with no communication},
  author={Alessandro Arsie and Emilio Frazzoli},
  journal={2007 American Control Conference},
  year={2006},
  pages={449-454}
}
In this paper we present a class of dynamic vehicle routing problems, in which a number of mobile agents in the plane must visit target points generated over time by a stochastic process. It is desired to design motion coordination strategies in order to minimize the expected time between the appearance of a target point and the time it is visited by one of the agents. We propose control strategies that, while making minimal or no assumptions on communications between agents, provide the same… 
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