Cooperative Tracking
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
- Dr. Jinwoo Lee, Research Associate, Embedded systems for UAV's and satellites
- William Whitacre, TAM Ph.D., Student Cooperative Estimation for the SeaScan UAV’s
Publications
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