Dynamic dispatching of coordinated sensors

Sensory data must be collected in real time for the majority of autonomous decision making tasks, such as target tracking, surveillance and navigation. The use of multiple sensors may significantly improve the quality and robustness of the data. Given an environment containing a set of mobile sensors, capable of altering their position and orientation, this work addresses the problem of selecting and maneuvering subsets of these sensors for optimal data acquisition in realtime. A heuristic approach to the dispatching problem suitable for on-line implementation is illustrated by a computer simulated example