Task planning and execution for UAV teams

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2004

Authors

João Borges de Sousa (Author) FEUP; T. Simsek (Author) Other; P. Varaiya (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2004)

Pages: 3804-3810

43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2004)

Paradise Island, Bahamas, 14 a 17 de Dezembro de 2004

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Other engineering and technologies

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2004.1429331

Abstract (EN): We design the attack of the Blue force of unmanned air combat vehicles (UAV), against Red's ground force of SAM sites and radars. The design is structured in a two-level hierarchy of planning and execution. The plan, based on prior information, determines which targets are to be attacked and groups them into sub-tasks; allocates a UAV team to each sub-task; and selects a risk-minimizing path for each team. Execution is organized in a hierarchy of real-time controllers, which determine the actual flight path, weapons release, and space-time coordination of the actions of a UAV team. Plan development uses an algorithm that determines the sequence in which targets are to be attacked. Execution design is specified in Shift, a programming language for dynamic networks of hybrid automata.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 7