Efstathios Bakolas

TL;DR: It is suggested that more fundamental research and cross-talk across several academic disciplines must be supported and incentivized for tackling the multi-disciplinary issues of accident causation and system safety, and two ideas that are emerging as foundational in the literature on system safety and accident causation are discussed, namely that system safety is a “control problem” and that it requires a system theoretic approach to be dealt with.

TL;DR: The problem of the pursuit of a maneuvering target by a group of pursuers distributed in the plane is addressed by associating it with a Voronoi-like partitioning problem that characterizes the set of initial positions from which the target can be intercepted by a given pursuer faster than any other pursuer from the same group.

TL;DR: This work considers Voronoi-like partitions for a team of moving targets distributed in the plane, such that each set in this partition is uniquely associated with a particular moving target in the following sense: a pursuer residing inside a given set of the partition can intercept this moving target faster than any other pursuer outside this set.

TL;DR: The main steps for the transcription of the covariance control problem is presented, which is originally formulated as a stochastic optimal control problem into a deterministic nonlinear program (NLP) with a convex performance index and with both convex and non-convex constraints.

TL;DR: The Dirichlet-Voronoi like partition problem for a small airplane operating in the horizontal plane in the presence of winds that vary uniformly with time is considered and can be interpreted as a Dynamic Voronoi Diagram problem, where the generators are not fixed, but rather they are moving targets to be reached in minimum time.