Survey of autonomous algorithms for cooperative surveillance and strike problems
Publish date: 2006-01-01
Report number: FOI-R--2016--SE
Pages: 74
Written in: English
Abstract
This report presents a survey of papers relevant to the Cooperative Surveillance and Strike Problem. The purpose of the survey is to describe recent results and research efforts in the field. These will be used in a future analysis of the possibilities and limitations of autonomous aerial vehicles in military missions. The problem concerns a number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) searching for and attacking a set of ground targets. The UAVs are either single use missiles, or regular, multi mission aircrafts. The ground targets are either mobile, or fixed, known or a priori unknown. The target area can be defended by surface to air missiles or anti aircraft guns and can furthermore contain so-called no-fly zones. This survey focuses on issues regarding autonomy, cooperation, surveillance, path planning, strike, surface to air missile (SAM)-threats and control.