Cooperative control for multiple autonomous UAV´s searching for targets

Author

Flint, Matthew ; Polycarpou, Marios ; Fernández-Gaucherand, Emmanuel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

10-13 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

2823

Abstract

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.

Keywords

aircraft control; cooperative systems; dynamic programming; search problems; target tracking; autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles; cooperative systems; dynamic programming; near-optimal trajectories; optimisation; target distribution; target search; Autonomous agents; Computer science; Dynamic programming; Military aircraft; Remotely operated vehicles; Search problems; Space vehicles; Strain control; Trajectory; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2002, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7516-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2002.1184272

Filename

1184272