Sensing and Autonomous Urban Reconnaissance Using Unmanned Robotic Vehicles
Ke Yu, Antonios Tsourdos, Brian A. White, Peter M. G. Silson · AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference · 2009
The focus of the paper is the development of an integrated architecture suitable for cooperative autonomous robotics systems performing mission like the one described in the UK MoD Grand Challenge. Its intention is to create a system which has a high degree of autonomy that conducts a tactical reconnaissance of a designated area within a representative complex urban environment. It will be able to detect, locate, identify and report a range of threats. The robots must be multi-tasked to acquire sufficient information back to a ground control station in a limited time. I.