UAV cooperative perception for target detection and tracking in maritime environment
Guilherme Henrique M. Amaral, Hugo Silva, Flávio Lopes, Joao Pedro Ribeiro, Sara Freitas, Carlos Marques de Almeida, Alfredo Martins, José Almeida, Eduardo Silva · OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen · 2017
This paper addresses the topic of target detection and tracking using a team of UAVs for maritime border surveillance. We present a novel method on how to integrate the perception into the control loop using two distinct teams of UAVs that are cooperatively tracking the same target. We demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of our approach in a simulation environment.