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ICAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Decentralized Search by Unmanned Air Vehicles Using Local Communication
: We present a model consisting of an emergent procedure for n unpiloted, autonomous flying munitions to cooperatively conduct a parallel sweeping search of a geographic area for s...
Joseph Schlecht, Karl Altenburg, Benzir Md Ahmed, ...
IJSYSC
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles
The objective of this paper is to explore the feasibility of using multiple low-altitude, short endurance (LASE) unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to cooperatively monitor and track th...
David W. Casbeer, Derek B. Kingston, Randal W. Bea...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
201views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical distributed control for search and tracking by heterogeneous aerial robot networks
Abstract—This paper presents a hierarchical control architecture that enables cooperative surveillance by a heterogeneous aerial robot network comprised of mothership unmanned ai...
Jack Elston, Eric W. Frew
GECCO
2008
Springer
137views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Evolutionary path planner for UAVs in realistic environments
This paper presents a path planner for Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) based on Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) that can be used in realistic risky scenarios. The path returned by the a...
Jesús Manuel de la Cruz, Eva Besada-Portas,...