RACER: Rapid Collaborative Exploration With a Decentralized Multi-UAV System

Collaborative Uav Exploration of Hostile Environments

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are frequently used for the exploration of a hostile environment. UAVs can be lost or significantly damaged during the exploration process. Although employing multiple UAVs can increase the chance of success, their efficiency depends on the collaboration strategies used. We present a cooperative exploration strategy for UAVs controlled by autonomous agents. The agents a...

A Uav Multi-sensor Rapid Mapping System for Disaster Management

As natural and artificial disasters being increased, the demand for rapid responses for emergency situations also has been everincreasing. These disaster responses require geospatial information of the target areas in real-time or rapidly to manage the situation more effectively. We are in progress of developing a real-time aerial monitoring system based on a UAV to satisfy such requirements. N...

Multi-UAV Collaborative Sensor Management for UAV Team Survivability

Collaboration among a team of unmanned sensor platforms can provide significant operational advantages through improved situational awareness (SA). Recent work on the Army Aviation Technology Directorate (AATD) sponsored Survivability Planner Associate Rerouter (SPAR) program, as well as separate internally funded research and development (in parallel with the SPAR contract) has provided insigh...

Collaborative Multi-Robot Exploration

In this paper we consider the problem of exploring an unknown environment by a team of robots. As in single-robot exploration the goal is to minimize the overall exploration time. The key problem to be solved therefore is to choose appropriate target points for the individual robots so that they simultaneously explore different regions of their environment. We present a probabilistic approach f...

A collaborative decentralized distribution system with demand forecast updates