Multi-UAV Cooperative Perception Techniques

This Chapter is devoted to the cooperation of multiple UAVs for environment perception. First, probabilistic methods for multi-UAV cooperative perception are analyzed. Then, the problem of multi-UAV detection, localization and tracking is described, and local image processing techniques are presented. Then, the Chapter shows two approaches based on the Information Filter and on evidence grid representations.

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