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Learning covariance dynamics for path planning of UAV sensors in a large-scale dynamic environment

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Park, Sooho; Choi, Han-Lim; Roy, Nicholas; How, Jonathan P.
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Abstract
This work addresses the problem of trajectory planning for UAV sensors taking measurements of a large nonlinear system to improve estimation and prediction of such a system. The lack of perfect knowledge of the global system state typically requires probabilistic state estimation. The goal is therefore to find trajectories such that the measurements along each trajectory minimize the expected error of the predicted state of the system some time into the future. The considerable nonlinearity of the dynamics governing these systems necessitates the use of com- putationally costly Monte-Carlo estimation techniques to update the state distri- bution over time. This computational burden renders planning infeasible, since the search process must calculate the covariance of the posterior state estimate for each candidate path. To resolve this challenge, this work proposes to replace the com- putationally intensive numerical prediction process with an approximate model of the covariance dynamics learned using nonlinear time-series regression. The use of autoregressive (AR) time-series features with the regularized least squares (RLS) algorithm enables the learning of accurate and efficient parametric models. The learned covariance dynamics are demonstrated to outperform other approximation strategies such as linearization and partial ensemble propagation when used for trajectory optimization, in both terms of accuracy and speed, with examples of simpli ed weather forecasting.
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Date issued
2009-08
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55348
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aerospace Controls Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Journal
AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2009.
Publisher
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Citation
Park, Sooho et al. "Learning covariance dynamics for path planning of UAV sensors in a large-scale dynamic environment." AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 10-13 August 2009, Chicago, Illinois 2009. AIAA 2009-6116.
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AIAA 2009-6116

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