Evidential map-building approaches for multi-UAV cooperative search

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 116-121

  Yang, Yanli ^a   Minai, Ali A ^a   Polycarpou, Marios M ^a,b  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION PLANNING; SEARCH ENGINES; TARGETS;

BAYESIAN THEORY; MAP BUILDING PROBLEM; PLANNING PROCEDURE; UNINHIBITED AIR VEHICLES (UAV);

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 23944446090     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. P. Chandler, M. Pachter, and S. Rasmussen. UAV cooperative control. In Proc. of the ACC, pages 50-55, June 2001.
2. T. McLain, P. Chandler, S. Rasmussen, and M. Pachter. Cooperative control of UAV rendezvous. In Proc. of the ACC, pages 2309-2314, June 2001.
3. J. S. Bellingham, M. Tillerson, M. Alighanbari, and J. P. How. Cooperative path planning for multiple UAVs in dynamic and uncertain environment. In Proceedings of the 41th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 2816-2822, December 2002.
4. G. Arslan, J. D. Wolfe, J. Shamma, and J. L. Speyer. Optimal planning for autonomous air vehicle battle management. In Proceedings of the 41th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 3782-3787, December 2002.
5. M. Polycarpou, Y. Yang, and K. Passino. A Cooperative Search Framework for Distributed Agents. In Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, pp. 1 -6, September 2001.
6. M. Flint, M. Polycarpou, and E. Fernandez. Cooperative control for multiple autonomous UAVs seaching for targets. In Proceedings of the 41th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 2823-2828, December 2002.
7. M. L. Baum and K. M. Passino. A search-theoretic approach to cooperative control for uninhabited air vehicles. In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, August 2002.
8. Y. Yang, M. Polycarpou, and A. Minai. Decentralized Cooperative Search by Networked Multi-UAVs in Uncertain Environment. In Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference, June 2004.
9. R. R. Murphy. Dempster-Shafer Theory for Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Mobile Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 14, no. 2, pages 197-206, 1998.
10. M. Moors, R. Simmons, W. Burgard, D. Fox and S. Thrun. Collaborative multi-robot exploration. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 2000.
11. E. Milios, I. Rekleitis and G. Dudek. Accurate mapping of an unknown world and online landmark positioning. In Proc. of Vision Interface, pages 455-461, 1998.
12. A. Elfes. Using Occupancy Grids for Mobile Robot Perception and Navigation. IEEE Computer, vol. 22, no. 6. pages 46-57, 1989.
13. A. P. Tirumalai, B. G. Schunck and R. C. Jain. Evidential Reasoning for Building Environment Maps. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 25, no. 1, pages 10-20, 1995.
14. D. Pagac, E. M. Nebot and H. Durrant-Whyte. An Evidential Approach to Map-Building for Autonomous Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 14, no. 4, pages 623-629, 1998.
15. M. Polycarpou. Y. Yang, Y. Liu and K. Passino. Cooperative Control Design for Uninhabited Air Vehicles. Chapter 13 in Cooperative Control: Models. Applications and Algorithms, pp. 283-321, Eds. S. Butenko, R. Murphey and P. Pardalos, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.