Min-Max Task Assignment and Sequencing with Heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles

This article addresses a planning problem for a team of heterogeneous, unmanned surface vehicles whose time costs are attributable to either transiting or task execution costs. Given a set of target regions and a team of unmanned vehicles, the Heterogeneous Multi-vehicle Planning Problem (HMPP) aims to find a tour for each vehicle such that each target is visited at least once by some vehicle and ...