Fiscal Year	2017
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Kaminer, Isaac I.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	The deployment of search effort has been a topic of Naval Operations Research since WWII, but optimal solutions-based on realistic sensor models and nonlinear vehicle dynamics-were not possible until recently. Thanks to research out of NPS in the last five years, however, this is no longer a barrier. We can now numerically compute vehicle trajectories which optimize detection probabilities given multiple, cooperative UxVs, and detailed heterogeneous vehicle dynamics and sensor characteristics. Our proposal is to develop a mission planning tool for search deployment unmanned underwater or surface vehicles which incorporates modern computational advances to provide greater utility for the Mine Countermeasure community.
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