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A Robust Approach for Nonlinear UAV Task Assignment Problem under Uncertainty

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This paper presents a new robust approach to the task assignment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in uncertain environments whose the objective is maximizing the target score. The intrinsic uncertainty imbedded in military operations makes the problem more challenging. Scalability and robustness are recognized as two main issues. We deal with these issues by an approach based on DC (Difference of Convex functions) programming and DCA (DC Algorithm). The numerical results show that this approach is efficient.

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Hoai An, L.T., Quang Thuan, N. (2010). A Robust Approach for Nonlinear UAV Task Assignment Problem under Uncertainty. In: Nguyen, N.T., Kowalczyk, R. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6450. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17155-0_8

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