INTEGRATING COORDINATED PATH FOLLOWING ALGORITHMS TO MITIGATE THE LOSS OF COMMUNICATION AMONG MULTIPLE UAVs

The thesis addresses the problem of mid-air collision avoidance among multiple Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) capable of communicating their flight states across a time-varying communication network. The UAVs capabilities to (a) follow a given path and to (b) exchange and coordinate thei...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Kyungnho
Other Authors: Buettner, Raymond R.
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/32848