Cooperative Tracking using
Multiple UAV's
Program Description
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missiones
are critical to current and future DoD applications. The
use of multiple UAV's for ISR missions, as well as search
and rescue and similar missions, is a critical next step
in the revolution of autonomous systems. Cooperating UAV's,
just now coming to fruition, could drastically improve performance
in such missions, without placing human operators in harm's
way.
The goal of the proposed work is to rapidly evaluate, and
demonstrate in flight, algorithms for cooperative tracking
of moving targets using multiple UAVs. This STTR program,
joint with the Insitu Group, develops planning, control,
and cooperative tracking estimation algorithms for their
ScanEagle and SeaScan UAV's. The program considers target
tracking for single and multiple UAV’s, stationary/moving
targets, and visible and IR cameras. Both end-to-end Hardware-in-the-Loop
(HiL) simulation and a set of comprehensive flight test
experiments of the integrated system will be performed.
Sponsor
AFOSR with the Insitu Group
Staff and Students
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Dr. Jinwoo Lee |
Research Associate
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Embedded systems for UAV's and satellites |
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William Whitacre |
TAM Ph.D. Student |
Cooperative Estimation for the SeaScan
UAV’s |
Publications
New Start.
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Three ScanEagle UAV's cooperatively tracking a target
moving on a road.
Still picture from the video tracking system on-board
the ScanEagle UAV. Current partner research focuses
on blob tracking of a moving target.
Initial tracking results using flight data from the ScanEagle
UAV's. Real time estimates of a stationary car are fused
from multiple resources.