Autonomous Cooperative Geo-Location and Coordinated Tracking of Moving Targets
Matt Wheeler, Richard Wise, Rolf T. Rysdyk, William W. Whitacre, Mark Campbell · AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2007 Conference and Exhibit · 2007
This is an overview of current developments in support of autonomous geolocation and tracking of moving targets with a flock of coordinated UAVs. The Insitu Group leads a group of researchers with the aim of geolocating and tracking of ground targets. The UAVs use coordinated maneuvering to accommodate maximum sensor precision. Flock guidance logic was demonstrated in real time on a distributed network with representative target data and image processing. Geolocation estimation algorithms and software were developed which exchange information among vehicles, process the information robustly in real time, and have demonstrated that the joint precision is improved.