Operations Research For Unmanned Systems - United Kingdom: Wiley & Sons, 2016. - xviii, 302p.

This is the first edited volume addressing analysis for unmanned vehicles and its focus is operations research ("how things should used"), rather than engineering ("how things should be built"). The reader will find a broad sampling of studies that treat s wide range of unmanned vehicle topics: search, logistics, urban operations, fight estimation, cost analysis, test and evaluation, command and control, and routing algorithms.

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1. Introduction
2. The In-Transit Vigilant Covering Tour Problem for Routing Unmanned Ground Vehicles
3. Near-Operational Assignment of UAVs to Targets Using a Market-Based Approach
4. Considering Mine Countermeasures Exploratory Operations Conducted by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
5. Optical Search by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Fauna Detection Case Study
6. A Flight Time Approximation Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Estimating the Effects of Path Variations and Wind
7. Impacts of Unmanned Ground Vehicles on Combined Arms Team Performance
8. Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination: When is Aided/Automated Target Recognition "Good Enough" for Operational Use?
9. Analyzing a Design Continuum for Automated Military Convoy Operations
10. Experimental Design for Unmanned Aerial Systems Analysis: Bringing Statistical Rigor to UAS Testing
11. Total Cost of Ownership(TOC): An Approach for Estimating UMAS Costs
12. Logistics Support for Unmanned Systems
13. Organizing for Improved Effectiveness in Networked Operations
14. An Exploration of Performance Distributions in Collectives
15. Distributed Combat Power: The Application of Salvo Theory to Unmanned Systems

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