Navigation of UAVs for tracking of atmospheric release of radiatio

0435994 - ÚTIA 2015 US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Šmídl, Václav - Hofman, Radek
Navigation of UAVs for tracking of atmospheric release of radiatio.
Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). New York: IEEE Computer Society, 2012, s. 3098-3103. ISBN 978-1-4673-2066-5. ISSN 0191-2216.
[ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC) 2012 /51./. Maui, Hawai (US), 10.12.2012-13.12.2012]
R&D Projects: GA MV VG20102013018
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10750506
Keywords : navigation * dual control * active learning
Subject RIV: BC - Control Systems Theory
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Navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a popular and well studied topic. In this contribution, we apply the existing decision theory to the problem of tracking atmospheric pollution, specifically accidental release of radiation. The UAVs work in tandem with the stationary radiation monitoring network to estimate consequences of the radiation accident. Results of this estimation serve as supporting material for the human decision makers, whose main concern is protection of the population. We test navigation of the UAVs with respect to two loss functions: mutual information and expected misclassification of affected people. Several approximations were designed to navigate the UAVs in real time. The simulation experiments confirm that UAVs have great potential to complement limited capabilities of the stationary radiation monitoring network.
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