TY - GEN
T1 - Efficient target tracking using mobile sensors
AU - Nitinawarat, Sirin
AU - Atia, George K.
AU - Veeravalli, Venugopal V.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A mathematical model for tracking of a moving target by multiple mobile sensors in the framework of a partially observable Markov decision process is discussed. Applications include the use of a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles for purposes such as search, surveillance, and target tracking. Computationally efficient approximate policies for controlling the mobile sensors are proposed, and a guarantee on their performance losses relative to that of the optimal policy is provided. Simulation results show that our proposed policies do perform close to the optimum for certain stationary models in which a mobile sensor can always move as fast as the target.
AB - A mathematical model for tracking of a moving target by multiple mobile sensors in the framework of a partially observable Markov decision process is discussed. Applications include the use of a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles for purposes such as search, surveillance, and target tracking. Computationally efficient approximate policies for controlling the mobile sensors are proposed, and a guarantee on their performance losses relative to that of the optimal policy is provided. Simulation results show that our proposed policies do perform close to the optimum for certain stationary models in which a mobile sensor can always move as fast as the target.
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U2 - 10.1109/CAMSAP.2011.6136038
DO - 10.1109/CAMSAP.2011.6136038
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857183324
SN - 9781457721052
T3 - 2011 4th IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP 2011
SP - 405
EP - 408
BT - 2011 4th IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP 2011
T2 - 2011 4th IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP 2011
Y2 - 13 December 2011 through 16 December 2011
ER -