Cooperative control for multiple autonomous UAV's searching for targets

The work presented here is in the area of decision and control for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Specifically, we formulate the problem of generating near-optimal trajectories to follow in order for several UAVs to cooperatively search for targets in a given area for which some a prior...

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Published inProceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2002 Vol. 3; pp. 2823 - 2828 vol.3
Main Authors Flint, M., Polycarpou, M., Fernandez-Gaucherand, E.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2002
Subjects
Autonomous agents
Computer science
Dynamic programming
Military aircraft
Remotely operated vehicles
Search problems
Space vehicles
Strain control
Trajectory
Unmanned aerial vehicles
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ISBN0780375165
9780780375161
ISSN0191-2216
DOI10.1109/CDC.2002.1184272

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Summary:The work presented here is in the area of decision and control for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Specifically, we formulate the problem of generating near-optimal trajectories to follow in order for several UAVs to cooperatively search for targets in a given area for which some a priori data about target distribution is available. An algorithm that utilizes a model of the cooperation is developed and a dynamic programming implementation is presented as a solution to this problem. Results from simulations are provided to illustrate the usefulness of this approach.
ISBN:0780375165
9780780375161
ISSN:0191-2216
DOI:10.1109/CDC.2002.1184272