International Business Machines Corporation
DISTRIBUTING UNMANNED VEHICLES USING MULTI-HOP TRANSPORT

Abstract:

Distributing and rebalancing crewless vehicles (CV) by receiving a CV demand--availability gap, identifying candidate CV to relocate to close the CV demand--availability gap, identifying a candidate transport to relocate the CV to close the CV demand--availability gap, generating a candidate CV relocation plan, optimizing an overall CV relocation plan, and executing the overall CV relocation plan.