Cooperative Mission Control for Unmanned Air Vehicles

Abstract

This report documents the results of our investigations towards a theory of cooperative mission control for groups of unmanned air vehicles. The investigations were focused on two levels of control: (1) Strategy Development, to determine missions of interest and corresponding strategies for accomplishing those missions in centralized and distributed settings, and (2) Dynamic Vehicle Assignment and Scheduling, which determines activities, routes and schedules for individual vehicles to accomplish desired missions of interest and strategies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA428524

Entities

People

  • Christos G. Cassandras
  • David A. Castañón

Organizations

  • Boston University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Control Systems
  • Cooperative Control
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Engineering
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Information Processing
  • Intelligence Surveillance And Reconnaissance
  • Model Predictive Control
  • Optimization
  • Probability
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Surveillance
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - UAVs