May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
4h 19m
English
DOI: 10.1201/9781003420057-6
In this chapter we describe and study a simple search plan for detecting a hidden object (the target) in a circular domain. The plan incorporates randomized decisions that make it robust to evasive tactics.
Since the pioneering paper of Koopman (1946), most work in search theory has postulated an immobile target. This assumption generally leads to a unique optimal search trajectory, sometimes a spiral or discretized “space-filling” curve, but more often the solution of a variational problem that cannot be solved explicitly. Recently, a number of workers ( ...
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