Vision-based target detection and localization via a team of cooperative UAV and UGVs

S Minaeian, J Liu, YJ Son - IEEE Transactions on systems, man …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned vehicles (UVs) play a key role in autonomous surveillance scenarios. A major
task needed by these UVs in undertaking autonomous patrol missions is to detect the targets …

A scalable multitarget tracking system for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles

N Farmani, L Sun, DJ Pack - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a decentralized multitarget tracking system for cooperative
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with limited sensing capabilities. The proposed system …

Optimal Positioning Strategy for Multi-Camera Zooming Drones

M Vargas, C Vivas, T Alamo - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of multiple-target tracking and surveillance applications, this paper
investigates the challenge of determining the optimal positioning of a single autonomous …

Cooperative relative localization using range measurements without a priori information

A Chakraborty, KM Brink, R Sharma - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability for autonomous vehicles to cooperatively navigate, especially in GPS denied
environments, is becoming increasingly important. It also requires the ability to initialize, or …

An optimal sensor management technique for unmanned aerial vehicles tracking multiple mobile ground targets

N Farmani, L Sun, D Pack - 2014 International Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an optimal sensor management technique for an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) to autonomously geo-localize multiple mobile ground targets. The target …

Topological similarity-based multi-target correlation localization for aerial-ground systems

X Li, L Wu, Y Niu, S Jia, B Lin - Guidance, Navigation and Control, 2021 - World Scientific
In this paper, an algorithm for solving the multi-target correlation and co-location problem of
aerial-ground heterogeneous system is investigated. Aiming at the multi-target correlation …

Optimal sensor management for multiple target tracking using cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles

S Baek, G York - 2020 International Conference on Unmanned …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we consider collaborative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a gimbaled
sensor tracking multiple mobile surface targets, where the number of targets is greater than …

Optimal UAV sensor management and path planning for tracking multiple mobile targets

N Farmani, L Sun, D Pack - Dynamic Systems …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, we present an optimal sensor manager and a path planner for an Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to geo-localize multiple mobile ground targets. A gimbaled camera with …

Distributed unmanned aerial vehicle positioning for multitarget tracking with bearing-only information

X Yang, S He, D Lin, Y Wang - Journal of Aerospace Information …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper proposes a distributed positioning algorithm for a swarm of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) to track multiple moving targets with bearing-only measurements. An …

Flying Chameleons: A New Concept for Minimum-Deployment, Multiple-Target Tracking Drones

M Vargas, C Vivas, FR Rubio, MG Ortega - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we aim to open up new perspectives in the field of autonomous aerial
surveillance and target tracking systems, by exploring an alternative that, surprisingly, and to …