UAV Cooperative Decision and Control. Challenges and Practical Approaches
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Author(s): T. Shima and S. Rasmussen (Eds)
Publisher: SIAM
ISBN: 9780898716641
Format: hardback
164pp
Price: $85.00
Review Date: 22 January 2009
Review: This book was written by researchers and collaborators at the Control Science Center of Excellence of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories. Over the years workers at the laboratory have gained a real insight into the problem of controlling multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This book provides an authoritative reference on U.S. Air Force relevant UAV cooperative decision and control problems and the means available for solving them. It presents these problems in a way that abstracts them from the common problems, enabling the solution methods to be leveraged over a broader range of applications. There are chapters on: The challenges; Single-task tours; Multiple assignments; Simultaneous multiple assignments; Estimation algorithms for improved cooperation under uncertainty; Effectiveness measures for operations in uncertain environments; MultiUAV simulation; and Path planning for UAVs.