Optimal cooperative placement of GMTI UAVs for ground target tracking

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1859-1867

  Sinha, Abhijit ^a   Kirubarajan, Thiagalingam ^a   Bar Shalom, Yaakov ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; PROBABILITY; RICCATI EQUATIONS; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; TARGETS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATOR (GMTI); OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; STOCHASTIC DECISION MODELS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 11244336629     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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