Article
Adaptive Multi-Vehicle Area Coverage Optimization System and Method
U.S. Patents
Abstract
A mission planning system for determining an optimum use of a plurality of vehicles in searching a predefined geographic area (PGA). A discretizer subsystem may be used for sensing the capabilities of each vehicle to produce a point set defining a number of points within the PGA that the vehicles must traverse to completely search the PGA. A task allocator subsystem may determine an optimum division of the PGA into different subregions to be handled by specific ones of the vehicles, thus to minimize an overall time needed to search the PGA. A path optimizer subsystem may determine an optimum path through a particular vehicle's assigned subregion to minimize the time needed for each specific vehicle to traverse its associated subregion.
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Comments
Filed July 12, 2012, Issued Dec. 31, 2013. Assignee: The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL
Patent Application Number
US13/547,413
Patent Number
US8620510B1
Document Type
Patent
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2013 The Boeing Company, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Publication Date
01 Jan 2013
Disciplines
Citation Information
Ryan J. Meuth, John Lyle Vian, Emad W. Saad and Donald C. Wunsch. "Adaptive Multi-Vehicle Area Coverage Optimization System and Method" U.S. Patents (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/donald-wunsch/121/