• 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