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Title: Distributed optimization system and method

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1174373

A search system and method for controlling multiple agents to optimize an objective using distributed sensing and cooperative control. The search agent can be one or more physical agents, such as a robot, and can be software agents for searching cyberspace. The objective can be: chemical sources, temperature sources, radiation sources, light sources, evaders, trespassers, explosive sources, time dependent sources, time independent sources, function surfaces, maximization points, minimization points, and optimal control of a system such as a communication system, an economy, a crane, and a multi-processor computer.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Patent Number(s):
6,577,906
Application Number:
09/635,019
OSTI ID:
1174373
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

Cooperative search and rescue with a team of mobile robots conference January 1997
Touch Points in Optimal Ascent Trajectories with First-Order State Inequality Constraints journal July 1998
A shortcoming of the multilevel optimization technique journal July 1971

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