Online UAV Path Planning for Joint Detection and Tracking of Multiple Radio-Tagged Objects

• Published in: IEEE transactions on signal processing Vol. 67; no. 20; pp. 5365 - 5379
• Main Authors: Nguyen, Hoa Van, Rezatofighi, Hamid, Vo, Ba-Ngu, Ranasinghe, Damith C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 15.10.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; information divergence; Markov processes; Object recognition; Path planning; Planning; POMDP; Product design; Radar tracking; Radio; Radio frequency; received signal strength; RFS; Signal to noise ratio; track-before-detect; Tracking; UAV; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wildlife

We consider the problem of online path planning for joint detection and tracking of multiple unknown radio-tagged objects. This is a necessary task for gathering spatio-temporal information using UAVs with on-board sensors in a range of monitoring applications. In this paper, we propose an online pa...