Research Summaries

Back Air Volume Capacity and Time-Critical Coordination of Multiple UAVS

Fiscal Year 2008
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s) Kaminer, Isaac I.
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary This proposal addresses an issue critical to the USN planners and current and future USN UAV operators, namely, the question of airspace volume capacity that can be populated by multiple UAVs performing a single or multiple missions in a littoral environment in support of the warfighter. Clearly an answer to this question must include more than just a number of the UAVs, but their desired paths that perform the required mission(s) and stay inside the air box, the algorithms to track these paths and that coordinate between multiple UAVs by using the underlying wireless network. In fact coordination constraints, as is shown in this proposal, must be included in the initial, air volume capacity/path planning step. The types of missions considered in this proposal include intelligent surveillance and reconnaissance, coordinated terrain following, support of small SEAL teams to name a few.
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