Autonomous unmanned heterogeneous vehicles for persistent monitoring

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dc.contributor.authorLappas, Vaios
dc.contributor.authorShin, Hyo-Sang
dc.contributor.authorTsourdos, Antonios
dc.contributor.authorLindgren, David
dc.contributor.authorBertrand, Sylvain
dc.contributor.authorMarzat, Julien
dc.contributor.authorPiet-Lahanier, Hélène
dc.contributor.authorDaramouskas, Yiannis
dc.contributor.authorKostopoulos, Vassilis
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-24T09:10:54Z
dc.date.available2022-05-24T09:10:54Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-10
dc.description.abstractSwarms of unmanned vehicles (air and ground) can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of military and law enforcement operations by enhancing situational awareness and allowing the persistent monitoring of multiple hostile targets. The key focus in the development of the enabling technologies for swarm systems is the minimisation of uncertainties in situational awareness information for surveillance operations supported by ‘system of systems’ composed of static and mobile heterogeneous sensors. The identified critical enabling techniques and technologies for adaptive, informative and reconfigurable operations of unmanned swarm systems are robust static sensor network design, mobile sensor tasking (including re-allocation), sensor fusion and information fusion, including behaviour monitoring. The work presented in this paper describes one of the first attempts to integrate all swarm-related technologies into a prototype, demonstrating the benefits of swarms of heterogeneous vehicles for defence applications used for the persistent monitoring of high-value assets, such as military installations and camps. The key enabling swarm system technologies are analysed here, and novel algorithms are presented that can be implemented in available COTS-based unmanned vehicles. The algorithms have been designed and optimised to require small computational power, be flexible, be reconfigurable and be implemented in a large range of commercially available unmanned vehicles (air and ground).en_UK
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Defence Agency: PP-15-INR-01en_UK
dc.identifier.citationLappas V, Shin HS, Tsourdos A, et al., (2022) Autonomous unmanned heterogeneous vehicles for persistent monitoring, Drones, Volume 6, Issue 4, April 2022, Article number 94en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2504-446X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/drones6040094
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/17949
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherMDPIen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectunmanned systemsen_UK
dc.subjectpersistent monitoringen_UK
dc.subjectautonomyen_UK
dc.titleAutonomous unmanned heterogeneous vehicles for persistent monitoringen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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