Centralized path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with a heterogeneous mix of sensors

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2009

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Dogancay, K.
Hmam, H.
Drake, S.
Finn, A.

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Marusic, S.
Palaniswami, M.
Gubbi, J.
Law, Y.

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Proceedings of 2009 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2009 / Marusic, S., Palaniswami, M., Gubbi, J., Law, Y. (ed./s), pp.91-96

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Kutluyıl Doğançay, Hatem Hmam, Samuel P. Drake, Anthony Finn

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5th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) (7 Dec 2009 - 10 Dec 2009 : Melbourne, Australia)

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This paper is concerned with real-time optimal UAV path planning in a multi-emitter geolocation environment. All UAVs are assumed to be controlled by a central processing unit. A UAV waypoint-update/steering algorithm is developed based on maximizing the determinant of Fisher information matrix for localization of stationary emitters. Soft and hard geometric constraints for threat/collision avoidance are also implemented. An effective joint path optimization and dynamic sensor allocation algorithm is proposed to handle communication bandwidth constraints. The performance of the developed steering algorithm is illustrated with extensive simulation examples.

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© 2009 IEEE

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