Cooperative Control of a Team of UAVs for Tactical Missions

This paper presents distributed decision and control algorithms for a team of UAVs to achieve real time autonomous operation capability for dynamic uncertain tactical missions. Cooperative control design approaches are presented and issues are discussed that dominate the achievable performance of a distributed control system. Principal issues discussed include: coupling between the distributed tasks; partial information restrictions; and the role of communication delays. Cooperative UAV team missions addressed include: generating a phantom radar track against a network of radars; fusing radar information to track ground moving targets; and small/micro vehicles that positively identify targets in an urban environment.

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