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Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

Abstract: In this article, we propose a model predictive control (MPC) with a single-step prediction horizon to approximate the solution of infinite horizon optimal control problems with the expected ...

Abstract: The search for multiple optimal solutions in the traveling salesman problem (TSP), as a challenging multimodal optimization problem in the combinatorial domain, has received increasing ...

an LCM network, and is analagous to tools like Ethereal/Wireshark and tcpdump in that it is able to inspect all LCM messages received and provide information and statistics on the channels used.