An interesting applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems is surveillance. Surveillance typically involves the tracking of one or several targets in an area. A key issue for this application is the autonomous decision-making to allocate UAS to targets and determine the actions to be performed by the UAS of the fleet. Since this optimal decision-making needs to deal with uncertainties, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are proposed as models for the surveillance mission. The paper proposes a role-assignment method to alleviate the computational complexity of the application of POMDPs to multi-UAS surveillance. The method is evaluated by simulation and compared with other similar approaches. Furthermore, the system has been implemented in a testbed with real quadcopters to show some preliminary experiments of two UAS tracking two different targets.


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    Title :

    Decentralized cooperation of multiple UAS for multi-target surveillance under uncertainties


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    Publication date :

    2014-05-01


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    5002171 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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