In real-world situations multiple vehicles will be called upon to perform exploration, national defense, rescue and routine operations in hazardous environments. In multi-vehicle missions, the benefits autonomy has to offer are even greater. Multi-vehicle control and monitoring with autonomous operation will become an absolute necessity and autonomous cooperation of vehicles is the only practical alternative. Developing enabling technologies, such as autonomous control systems, can provide UAVs with the ability to fuse sensor data, cope with conflicting inputs, and make decisions. The success of UAV missions flying straight paths between way points can be enhanced by an on-board trainable adaptable replanning system that can route the UAV around unexpected threats or detour for unusual observations. This paper investigates different levels of autonomy for multiple unmanned vehicles. It is shown that different types of autonomous cooperation will be needed for different types of missions.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Flock autonomy for unmanned vehicles


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Mobile Robots VII ; 1992 ; Boston,MA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1993-05-04





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Autonomy in unmanned air vehicles

    Platts, J.T. | Online Contents | 2006


    Scalable Autonomy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Jung, S.-H. / Ariyur, K. / American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2011


    Intelligent Autonomy for Unmanned Surface and Underwater Vehicles

    Huntsberger, Terry / Woodward, Gail | NTRS | 2011


    Controlling unmanned aerial vehicles as a flock to synchronize flight in aerial displays

    STARK JAMES ALEXANDER / WONG CLIFFORD / TROWBRIDGE ROBERT SCOTT | European Patent Office | 2017

    Free access

    CONTROLLING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES AS A FLOCK TO SYNCHRONIZE FLIGHT IN AERIAL DISPLAYS

    STARK JAMES ALEXANDER / WONG CLIFFORD / TROWBRIDGE ROBERT SCOTT | European Patent Office | 2015

    Free access