Title :
Asset network planning: Integration of environmental data and sensor performance for counter piracy
Author :
Grasso, Raffaele ; Braca, Paolo ; Osler, John ; Hansen, Jonas
Author_Institution :
NATO STO CMRE, La Spezia, Italy
Abstract :
An operation planning system, integrating dynamic environmental forecasts and satellite Automatic Identification System sensor performance surfaces, to improve maritime traffic situation awareness is proposed and tested. Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are used to optimize a network of monitoring assets with respect to a combined surveillance and piracy activity risk metric, the network area coverage and the mission cost, under given spatial and kinematic constraints. Pareto efficient solutions are provided, each representing a tradeoff among mission objectives. Tests in a counter piracy operational scenario with real-world hindcast data and sensor performance surfaces show the effectiveness of the methodology in improving surveillance efficiency.
Keywords :
Pareto optimisation; data integration; evolutionary computation; path planning; surveillance; Pareto efficient solutions; asset network planning; counter piracy; environmental data integration; environmental forecasts; maritime traffic situation awareness; monitoring assets; multiobjective evolutionary algorithms; piracy activity risk metric; real-world hindcast data; satellite automatic identification system sensor; sensor performance surfaces; Marine vehicles; Measurement; Optimization; Planning; Satellites; Sea surface; Surveillance; counter piracy; environmental forecasts; multi-objective optimization; path planning; sensor networks; sensor performance surfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2013 Proceedings of the 21st European
Conference_Location :
Marrakech