A Non-Search Optimal Control Solution for a Team of MUAVS in a Reconnaissance Mission

Author

Casbeer, David W. ; Zhan, Pengcheng ; Swindlehurst, A. Lee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

14-19 May 2006

Abstract

We consider a team of miniature unmanned air vehicles (MUAVs) in a multi-static radar scenario. Time delay and Doppler measurements made at the UAVs are transmitted to a base station which is tracking a target. The base then transmits heading commands to the MUAVs to reduce the tracking error. Optimal solutions that attempt to minimise a function of the error covariance or maximize the observability of the system are computationally difficult to implement. We present a simpler approximate method that yields a closed-form solution and performs comparably to the optimal approaches

Keywords

aircraft control; optimal control; radar tracking; remotely operated vehicles; target tracking; Doppler measurements; MUAV; base station; error covariance; miniature unmanned air vehicles; multistatic radar scenario; nonsearch optimal control; reconnaissance mission; target tracking; time delay; Base stations; Delay effects; Doppler measurements; Doppler radar; Observability; Optimal control; Radar tracking; Reconnaissance; Target tracking; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0469-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1661182

Filename

1661182