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On the Design and Use of a Micro Air Vehicle to Track and Avoid Adversaries

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He, Ruijie; Bachrach, Abraham Galton; Prentice, Samuel James; Roy, Nicholas; Achtelik, Michael; Gurdan, Daniel; Stumpf, Jan; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
The MAV ’08 competition focused on the problem of using air and ground vehicles to locate and rescue hostages being held in a remote building. To execute this mission, a number of technical challenges were addressed, including designing the micro air vehicle (MAV), using the MAV to geo-locate ground targets, and planning the motion of ground vehicles to reach the hostage location without detection. In this paper, we describe the complete system designed for the MAV ’08 competition, and present our solutions to three technical challenges that were addressed within this system. First, we summarize the design of our micro air vehicle, focusing on the navigation and sensing payload. Second, we describe the vision and state estimation algorithms used to track ground features, including stationary obstacles and moving adversaries, from a sequence of images collected by the MAV. Third, we describe the planning algorithm used to generate motion plans for the ground vehicles to approach the hostage building undetected by adversaries; these adversaries are tracked by the MAV from the air. We examine different variants of a search algorithm and describe their performance under different conditions. Finally, we provide results of our system’s performance during the mission execution.
Date issued
2010-09
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58969
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
International Journal of Robotics Research
Publisher
Sage Publications
Citation
Ruijie He et al. “On the Design and Use of a Micro Air Vehicle to Track and Avoid Adversaries.” The International Journal of Robotics Research 29.5 (2010): 529 -546.
Version: Author's final manuscript
ISSN
0278-3649
1741-3176

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