Control of unmanned aerial vehicles performing multiple target passive detection and tracking

Author

Sarunic, Peter W. ; Evans, Robin J.

Author_Institution

Electron. Warfare & Radar Div., Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Edinburgh, SA, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

42

Abstract

Advances in a previously proposed algorithm for trajectory optimization of autonomous aerial vehicles performing multiple target tracking are presented. The algorithm involves a variant of the moving horizon control approach, built on a partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP) model of the sensor-target system. To evaluate the effectiveness of the advances a simulation involving multiple UAVs and targets is performed.

Keywords

Markov processes; aircraft control; mobile robots; position control; remotely operated vehicles; target tracking; moving horizon control approach; multiple target detection; multiple target tracking; partially observed Markov decision process; sensor-target system; trajectory optimization; unmanned aerial vehicles; Costs; Electronic warfare; Passive radar; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Remotely operated vehicles; Target tracking; Trajectory; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicle detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2009 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3517-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3518-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSNIP.2009.5416774

Filename

5416774