Network-centric systems for military operations in urban terrain: The role of UAVs

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-107

  Samad, Tariq ^a   Bay, John S ^b   Godbole, Datta ^a  

^a HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Coordination and control; Route optimization; Surveillance and reconnaissance; UAVs; Urban operations

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; ANTENNAS; LANDFORMS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES; AUTONOMY; COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; COORDINATION AND CONTROL; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; MILITARY OPERATIONS IN URBAN TERRAINS; ROUTE OPTIMIZATION; URBAN OPERATIONS;

MILITARY VEHICLES;

EID: 45149129308     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.887327     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. A. Ahmadzadeh, J. Keller, G. J. Pappas, A. Jadbabaie, and V. Kumar, "An optimization-based approach to time-critical cooperative surveillance and coverage with unmanned aerial vehicles," presented at the 10th Int. Symp. Experimental Robotics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul. 2006.
2. Aviation Week and Space Technology, Aviation Week and Space Technology- Aerospace Source Book, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
3. G. L. Barrows, J. S. Chahl, and M. V. Srinivasan, "Biomimetic visual sensing and flight control," Aeronaut. J, vol. 107, no. 1069, pp. 159-168, 2003.
4. J. S. Bay, "Demonstrating tactical information services from coordinated UAV operations," in Proc. SPIE Conf. Defense Transformation and Network-Centric Systems, Defense and Security Symposium, Apr. 2006, vol. 6329.
5. J. S. Bay, E. N. Johnson, and P. Ray, BUniversity testbeds demonstrate major advances in autonomous rotorcraft control software," Vertiflight, vol. 51, no. 3, 2005.
6. J. S. Bay and T. Samad, "Multiagent sensing and control: Surveillance and reconnaissance for urban operations," in Proc. Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems Conf., Kyoto, Japan, Jul. 2006.
7. R. W. Beard and T. W. McLain, "Multiple UAV cooperative search under collision avoidance and limited range communication constraints," in Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, 2003, pp. 25-30.
8. A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "Multiple access protocol for power-controlled wireless access nets," IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 307-316, Oct.-Dec. 2004.
9. K. D. Bilimoria, H. Q. Lee, Z.-H. Mao, and E. Feron, "Comparison of centralized and decentralized conflict resolution strategies for multiple-aircraft problems," presented at the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf., Denver, CO, Aug. 2000, Paper no. AIAA-2000-4268.
10. P. Binns, M. Elgersma, V. Ha, and T. Samad, "Statistical verification for UAV autonomy,"in Proc. American Helicopter Society, 2003, pp. 2011-2017.
11. F. Borrelli et al., "A comparison between mixed integer programming and nonlinear programming techniques for 3D conflict resolution of multiple aircraft," in Proc. American Control Conf, 2006.
12. T. X. Brown et al., "Ad hoc UAV ground network (AUGNet)," presented at the Proc. AIAA 3rd BUnmanned Unlimited[ Technical Conference, Workshop and Exhibit, Chicago, IL, 2004, Paper no. AIAA-2004-6321.
13. L. Chaimowicz et al., "Deploying air-ground multi-robot teams in urban environments," presented at the Int. Workshop Multi-Robot Systems, Washington, DC, Mar. 14-16, 2005.
14. Universal Joint Task List, CJCS Manual 3500. 04A, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, DC, 1996.
15. H. B. Christopherson et al., "Small adaptive flight control systems for UAVs using FPGA/DSP technology," presented at the AIAA 3rd BUnmanned Unlimited[ Technical Conference, Workshop and Exhibit, Chicago, IL, Sep. 20-23, 2004, Paper no. AIAA-2004-6556.
16. M. Elgersma, S. Ganguli, V. Ha, and T. Samad, "Statistical performance verification for an autonomous rotorcraft," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Intelligent Control, 2004, pp. 7-12.
17. R. Ellefsen, Current Assessment of Building Construction types in Worldwide Example Cities; report prepared for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA, 1999.
18. D. Enns, D. Bugajksi, and S. Pratt, "Guidance and control for cooperative search," in Proc. Am. Control Conf., 2002, pp. 1923-1929.
19. P. Evans, "Using UAVs to support military operations in urban terrain (MOUT)," presented at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems Symp. Exhibit., Anaheim, CA, 2002.
20. P. Evans and B. Nelson, "Combined unmanned system operations in urban environments," presented at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems Symp. Exhibit.,^Baltimore, MD, 2003.
21. R. Fagin et al., Reasoning About Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.
22. J. How. (2005). Report on the AFOSR Workshop on UAV Testbeds and Simulations. [Online]. Available: http://www.mit.edu/%7Ejhow/Workshop-report. pdf.
23. E. Johnson and S. Kannan, "Adaptive flight control for an autonomous unmanned helicopter," presented at the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conf., Monterey, CA, Aug. 2002, AIAA-2002-4439.
24. E. Johnson, D. P. Schrage, and G. Vachtsevanos, "Rotary wing final experiments for the Software Enabled Control rogram," presented at the 61st Annu. Meeting Am. Helicopter Soc., Grapevine, TX, 2005.
25. J. K. Kuchar and L. C. Yang, "A review of conflict detection and resolution modeling methods," IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., Dec. 2000.
26. S. Levinson, Pragmatics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.
27. B. T. Ludington, L. Tang, and G. J. Vachtsevanos, "Target tracking in an urban warfare environment using particle filters," in Proc. 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conf., 2005, pp. 1-8.
28. R. M. Murray et al., "Online control customization via optimization-based control," in Software-Enabled Control: Information Technology for Dynamical Systems, T. Samad and G. Balas, Eds. New York: Wiley, 2003.
29. Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. (2005). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2005-2030. [Online]. Available: http://www.acq.osd.mil/usd/ Roadmap%20Final2.pdf.
30. F. Pala, "Frequency and polarization diversity simulations for urban UAV communication and data links," Masters thesis, Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterrey, CA, 2004.
31. G. Papageorgiou and D. Cofer, "Coordinated control of uninhabited air vehicles with communication and processing power limitations," presented at the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf. Exhibit., Austin, TX, Aug. 11-14, 2003, AIAA-2003-5662.
32. L. A. Piñeiro and D. Duggan, "Development and testing of a network-centric, multi-UAV command and control scheme using a variable autonomy control system (VACS)," in Proc. AUVSI Unmanned Systems Symposium and Exhibition, Baltimore, MD, 2003.
33. A. Raghunathan et al., "Dynamic optimization strategies for 3-D conflict resolution of multiple aircraft," AIAA J. Guidance, Control Dynamics, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 586-594, 2004.
34. A. Richards and J. P. How, "Aircraft trajectory planning with collision avoidance using mixed integer linear programming," in Proc. Am. Control Conf., 2002, pp. 1936-1941.
35. L. Ricker and K. Rudie, "Knowledge is a terrible thing to waste: Using inference in discrete-event control problems," in Proc. Am. Control Conf., 2003, pp. 2246-2251.
36. M. Ridley et al., "Tracking in decentralised air-ground sensing networks," in Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Information Fusion, 2002, pp. 616-623.
37. P. Rigstad, "UAVs as communications routing nodes in network-centric warfare," presented at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems Symp. Exhibit., Baltimore, MD, 2003.
38. T. Samad and G. Balas, Eds., Software-Enabled Control: Information Technology for Dynamical Systems. New York: Wiley, 2003.
39. O. Shakernia, Y. Ma, J. Koo, J. Hespanha, and S. Sastry, "Vision guided landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle," in Proc. 38th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Dec. 1999, pp. 4143-4148.
40. Shephard. (2006). Shephard UV Online. [Online]. Available: http://www.shephard.co.uk/UVOnline/.
41. L. Singh, J. Plump, M. McConley, and^". Appleby, "Software-enabled control: Autonomous agile guidance and control synthesis for a UAV in partially unknown urban terrain," presented at the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf. Exhibit., Austin, TX, Aug. 11-14, 2003, Paper AIAA-2003-5674.
42. Space War. (2005, Oct. 12). BNGC demos autonomous system that delivers real-time surveillance to troops," in Space War.[Online]. Available: http://www.spacewar.com/news/uav-05zzzzw.html.
43. U.S. Department of Defense. (2006). DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. [Online]. Available: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new- pubs/jp1-02.pdf. Joint publication 1-02 (see also http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/ jel/doddict/).
44. D. W. Van Cleave, "Trends and technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles," in Software Enabled Control: Information Technology for Dynamical Systems, T. Samad and G. Balas, Eds. Piscataway, NJ: Wiley/IEEE Press, 2003, pp. 9-26.
45. D. R. Van Rheeden, ". C. Brown, J. C. Price,^". A. Abbott, G. C. Willden, K. Chhokra, J. Scott, and T. Bapty, "Automatic positioning of UAVs to optimize TDOA geolocation performance," in Proc. 23rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Oct. 2004, pp. 24-28.
46. A. Vick et al., Aerospace Operations in Urban Environments: Exploring New Concepts. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2000.
47. R. Vidal, O. Shakernia, H. J. Kim, D. H. Shim, and S. Sastry, "Probabilistic pursuit-evasion games: Theory, implementation, and experimental evaluation," IEEE Trans. Robot. Autom., vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 662-669, Oct. 2001.
48. E. A. Wan, A. A. Bogdanov, R. Kieburtz, A. Baptista, M. Carlsson, Y. Zhang, and M. Zulauf, "Model predictive neural control for aggressive helicopter maneuvers," in Software-Enabled Control: Information Technology for Dynamical Systems, T. Samad and G. Balas, Eds. New York: Wiley, 2003.
49. K. Xu, X. Hong, and M. Gerla, "Landmark routing in ad hoc networks with mobile backbones," J. Parallel Distrib. Computing, pp. 110-122, 2003.
50. Y. Zhao and R. Schultz, "Deterministic resolution of two aircraft conflict in free flight," presented at the AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conf., New Orleans, LA, 1997, Paper no. AIAA-1997-3547.