I was a PhD student, this page summarizes graphically my PhD project.
Goal
Search and track mobile targets using a fleet of cooperative drones.
Estimate target localizations
Reduce uncertainty on estimated target localizations
By strategically moving a fleet of drones carring sensors
Challenges
Multiples targets
Moving tagets
Noisy sensors
Cooperative and distributed estimation
Cooperative and distributed guidance
Proposed approaches
Set-membership estimation
Optimization of the drones paths
Civil applications
Search and rescue
(terrestrial)
Search and rescue
(maritime)
Patrolling marine protected area
Patrolling National Parks
Iceberg monitoring
Wildfire monitoring
Wildlife monitoring
Anti poaching
Military applications
Intelligence gathering
Drone strike
Publications
Sébastien Reynaud, Michel Kieffer, Helene Piet-Lahanier, Léon Reboul. A set-membership approach to find and track multiple targets using a fleet of UAVs. 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control(CDC 2018), Dec 2018, Miami, FL, United States.
Reboul, L., Kieffer, M., Piet-Lahanier, H., & Reynaud, S. (2019). Cooperative guidance of a fleetof UAVs for multi-target discovery and tracking in presence of obstacles using a set membership approach. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(12), 340-345.