Real-time Cooperative Navigation using Relative Sensing
Abstract
This project aims to develop novel cooperative localization algorithms required to deploy a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with communication and sensing resource constraints in Global Positioning System (GPS) denied environments. The methods developed in this project will be useful in a wide variety of multi-UAV applications for Air Force where GPS signals can be easily jammed either intentionally or unintentionally. These applications include search and rescue and border patrolling, and surveillance to name a few. The objective of this project is to address fundamental problems that arise while performing distributed estimation to estimate position, velocity, and orientation of UAVs when absolute position information (GPS, features in a known map) is not available and the communication bandwidth is limited.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 07, 2016
- Source ID
- FA86511610001
Entities
People
- Rajnikant Sharma
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- United States Air Force
- Utah State University