Autonomous Unmanned Heterogeneous Vehicles for Persistent Monitoring

Swarms of unmanned vehicles (air and ground) can increase the efficiency effectiveness military law enforcement operations by enhancing situational awareness allowing persistent monitoring multiple hostile targets. The key focus in development enabling technologies for swarm systems is minimisation uncertainties information surveillance supported ‘system systems’ composed static mobile heterogeneous sensors. identified critical techniques adaptive, informative reconfigurable are robust sensor network design, tasking (including re-allocation), fusion fusion, including behaviour monitoring. work presented this paper describes one first attempts to integrate all swarm-related into a prototype, demonstrating benefits swarms defence applications used high-value assets, such as installations camps. system analysed here, novel algorithms that be implemented available COTS-based vehicles. have been designed optimised require small computational power, flexible, large range commercially ground).