This paper presents a novel dynamic progressively spiral-out (PSO) formation for a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform an exhaustive search of mobile ground targets. Two novel procedures are designed for a UAV to be inserted to and removed from an established PSO formation without discontinuing the confidence area. A comparison study in simulation was conducted using both randomly moving and smart avoidance targets. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
Dynamic Exhaustive Mobile Target Search Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; 55 , 6 ; 3413-3423
2019-12-01
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