Optimal cooperative placement of UAVs for ground target tracking with doppler radar

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5429, Issue , 2004, Pages 95-104

  Sinha, A ^a   Kirubarajan, T ^a   Bar Shalom, Y ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Ground target tracking; Multisensor multitarget tracking; Sensor management; UAV placement

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RICCATI EQUATIONS; SENSORS; TARGETS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; GROUND TARGET TRACKING; MULTISENSOR-MULTITARGET TRACKING; SENSOR MANAGEMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV) PLACEMENT;

DOPPLER RADAR;

EID: 8844223439     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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