Preface |
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1.1 Background and Motivation |
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1.1.1 Unmanned Air Vehicle Group Coordination |
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1.1.2 Inventory Control in Supply-Chains |
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1.2 Previous and Related Work |
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1.2.1 Distributed optimization, decomposition methods and numerical optimization |
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1.2.2 Economics literature, game theoretic solutions and multi-agent systems |
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1.2.3 Multiple vehicle control and coordination |
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2 Inventory Management in Supply-Chains |
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2.2 Supply-Chain Model and Problem |
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2.2.1 Subcontractor's Perspective |
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2.2.2 Main Contractor's Perspective |
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2.2.3 Global Optimization Problem |
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2.2.4 Decentralized Optimization |
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3 UAV Safety Zone Coordination |
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3.2.1 The independent local optimization problem of each UAV |
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3.2.2 The decentralized optimization framework |
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4 Centralized and Decentralized Optimization |
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4.2 Summary of this chapter's results |
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4.3 Centralized Optimization |
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4.3.1 Motivation: Dynamic Systems with Multiple Decision Makers and Coupling Constraints |
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4.3.2 Centralized Optimization Problem |
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4.3.3 Illustrative example: Pareto-optimal solutions for the GN&C manufacturing supply-chain |
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4.4 Decentralized Optimization |
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4.4.1 Decentralized optimal solutions: An illustrative example |
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5 Penalty-based Method and Iterative Algorithm |
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5.1 Penalty Methods for Decentralized Optimization |
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5.2 Coordination Assumptions |
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5.4 Emulation of Block Iterative Methods via Sequential Subsystem Optimizations, and Convergence of the Global Metric |
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5.5 Illustration of the Algorithm |
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5.6 An Illustrative Example |
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6 First and Second Order Optimality Conditions |
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6.2 Assumptions and Solution Type |
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6.3 Differentiable Inexact Penalty Format |
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6.4 Global Convergence to Always Feasible Solutions |
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6.5 f-Optimality for Decentralized Optimization |
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6.6 Second-Order Optimality Conditions |
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7 Analytic Supply-Chain Example |
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7.1 Supply-chain with multiple levels |
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7.2 The decentralized optimization formulation |
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7.3 The feasibility analysis |
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8 Numeric UAV Safety Zone Coordination Example |
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8.1 Numerical Implementation |
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8.1.1 The first example (Scenario A) |
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8.1.3 The third set of examples (Scenarios B, C, D, E) |
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8.1.4 Extension to Multiple Vehicle Routing Problems |
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8.1.5 Extension to Moving-Time Horizon |
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9 Conclusions & Future Work |
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9.1 Summary of Contributions |
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9.1.1 Decentralized optimization model |
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9.1.2 Penalty-based method and coordination algorithm for decentralized optimization |
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9.1.3 Analysis of convergence, feasibility and optimality |
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10 Appendix - Proofs |
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Bibliography |
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