Straight-Line Target Tracking for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Straight-Line Target Tracking for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

This paper considers the subject of straight-line target tracking for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Target-tracking represents motion control scenarios where no information about the target behavior is known in advance, i.e., the path that the target traverses is not defined apriori. Specifically, this work presents the design of a motion control system which enables an underactuated USV to...

Ground Target Tracking Control System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The work here presented contributes to the development of ground target tracking control systems for fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The control laws are derived at the kinematic level, relying on a commercial inner loop controller onboard that accepts commands in indicated air speed and bank, and appropriately sets the control surface deflections and thrust in order to follow those...

Developing Autonomy for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Mission Specification and Control for Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicles for Indoor Target Discovery and Tracking

This paper describes ongoing research by Georgia Tech into the challenges of tasking and controlling heterogonous teams of unmanned vehicles in mixed indoor/outdoor reconnaissance scenarios. We outline the tools and techniques necessary for an operator to specify, execute, and monitor such missions. The mission specification framework used for the purposes of intelligence gathering during missi...

Tracking of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Visual tracking of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a smart phone can be quite a daunting task. In this paper an image processing algorithm is outlined in order to be able to assist a user in visually tracking small UAVs. Due to the small nature of the target, simple template matching or optical flow provided to be too process intensive and unreliable for real time tracking. To improve ...