Real-Time Cooperative Navigation using Relative Localization under Communication and Sensing Constraints

Abstract

Cooperative Localization (CL) offers several potential advantages over single vehicle navigation, including increased localization accuracy, sensor coverage, robustness, efficiency, and flexibility. The objective of this research is to address fundamental problems that arise while performing cooperative localization using a group unmanned/manned aerial vehicles and in real-time where sensing and communication capabilities are limited and localization sources such as GPS and known landmarks (referencing source) are scarce or not available. An approximate distributed information consensus based cooperative localization algorithms to fuse the relative position and orientation information will be developed and validated analytically and experimentally.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Sep 05, 2018
Source ID
FA86511810005

Entities

People

  • Rajnikant Sharma

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory
  • United States Air Force
  • University of Cincinnati

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers