A unified cooperative control architecture for UAV missions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8392, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tian, Xin ^a,b   Bar Shalom, Yaakov ^b   Chen, Genshe ^a   Blasch, Erik ^c   Pham, Khanh ^d  

^a I Fusion Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

information fusion; sensor management; UAV cooperative control architecture

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; FUNCTION MODULE; LEARNING APPROACH; LEARNING CAPABILITIES; MODULAR STRUCTURES; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; MULTIPLE UAVS; ON-BOARD RESOURCES; SENSOR MANAGEMENT; SITUATION AWARENESS; UAV CONTROL; UAV MISSIONS;

INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84862861886     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.919793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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