DocumentCode
635953
Title
Autonomous navigation of teams of Unmanned Aerial or Underwater Vehicles for exploration of unknown static & dynamic environments
Author
Kapoutsis, A. Ch ; Chatzichristofis, S.A. ; Doitsidis, Lefteris ; Borges de Sousa, Joao ; Kosmatopoulos, Elias B.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
fYear
2013
fDate
25-28 June 2013
Firstpage
1181
Lastpage
1188
Abstract
In this paper, we present a new approach that is able to efficiently and fully-autonomously navigate a team of Unmanned Aerial or Underwater Vehicles (UAUV´s) when deployed in exploration of unknown static and dynamic environments towards providing accurate static/dynamic maps of the environment. Additionally to achieving to efficiently and fully-autonomously navigate the UAUV team, the proposed approach possesses certain advantages such as its extremely computational simplicity and scalability, and the fact that it can very straightforwardly embed and type of physical or other constraints and limitations (e.g., obstacle avoidance, nonlinear sensor noise models, localization fading environments, etc).
Keywords
autonomous aerial vehicles; autonomous underwater vehicles; collision avoidance; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; navigation; optimisation; CAO algorithm; UAUV; cognitive-based adaptive optimization; computational scalability; computational simplicity; dynamic map; localization fading environment; nonlinear sensor noise model; obstacle avoidance; static map; team autonomous navigation; unknown dynamic environment exploration; unknown static environment exploration; unmanned aerial vehicle; unmanned underwater vehicle; Accuracy; Navigation; Noise; Optimization; Robot sensing systems; Trajectory; Vectors;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Control & Automation (MED), 2013 21st Mediterranean Conference on
Conference_Location
Chania
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-0995-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MED.2013.6608870
Filename
6608870
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