A network-centric UAV organization for search and pursuit operations

Techniques for pursuit-evasion games and search missions have been studied widely in the research community in the past few years but most of the emphasis has been laid on the control strategies for these missions. These have been shown to work for small scale missions, but attempts at their application to large scale missions have suffered from the lack of scalability and robustness of these systems. Hence we believe that for large systems implementing these missions, there is a need to lay emphasis on proper network architecture for these systems to make them scalable and robust to failures of the participating entities. In this paper, we talk about our concept of using service networks to execute these missions. We also present a preliminary implementation of our ideas to validate our claims of making the system more scalable and robust.