Title :
The probe allocation problem
Author :
Ow Yi Xian ; Chitre, Mandar ; Rus, Daniela
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
Surveillance problem in a variety of scenarios such as hostile environments, environmental monitoring and law enforcement missions (i.e. border patrol) etc have been widely studied. However, monitoring of traffic conditions in urban environments by deploying a team of agents is a novel problem not found in any existing literature. This problem is termed as the probe allocation problem. In light of the recent developments of automated cars, studies of such surveillance problems in urban environments will prove to be useful. The main purpose of this paper is to make a formal introduction to the probe allocation problem and propose an algorithm that solves it. A Singapore-scale simulation was carried out to study its performance.
Keywords :
automobiles; law; surveillance; traffic control; Singapore-scale simulation; automated cars; border patrol; environmental monitoring; hostile environments; law enforcement missions; probe allocation problem; surveillance problems; traffic conditions; urban environments; Entropy; Estimation; Probes; Resource management; Roads; Upper bound; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems (CIVTS), 2013 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
DOI :
10.1109/CIVTS.2013.6612289