Optimal searching for a randomly located target in a bounded known region
Hamdy Mohamed Abou Gabal, Mohamed Abd Allah El‐Hadidy · International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics · 2015
This paper addresses the problem of searching for a randomly located target in a bounded known region by a single searcher. The searcher wishes to find the target's position, that is given by the value of the two independent double truncated random variables (X; Y) and they have joint symmetric probability density function f(x; y). It is desired to search in an optimal manner to minimise the expected value of the time for detecting the target, assuming double truncated circular normal distributed estimates of its position.