@inproceedings{7e79c397c2904ea79c46c5204d7a48c9,
title = "Agent control of autonomous air vehicles for geolocation of radar emitters",
abstract = "Determining the location of radar emitters is one of the most important categories of search problems for defence related tasks. Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAVs) that are equipped with electronic support (ES) sensor systems, provide a means of extending search capabilities beyond the visual horizon and detecting such emitters. However; detection alone is not suficient, and so by applying multiple AAVs acting cooperativelj the location of the emitter can be determined by appropriate data fusion processing of the information about the intercepted emitter pulses. Geolocation of the emitter of interest can be achieved by a method known as TimeDifference-of-Arrival (TDOA) processing, and requires a team of cooperative receivers separated by a suitable distance. Team formation between autonomous agent entities requires the presence ofa mechanism by which cooperative team links can be established. These linkages between agents come about because of the presence of driving forces that develop between the agents. In the system of multiple autonomous air vehicles considered in this paper; the objective is to fuse the various capabilities of the AAVs into a coherent entity that can perform geolocation of a radar emittel: The first part of the paper describes the TDOA algorithm. In the second part, the set of behaviours for each AAV are described and the reasoning architecture that enables the individual AAVs to behave collectively to accomplish their mission objective is presented.",
keywords = "Agent phenotype, Autonomous aerial vehicle, Behaviour, Geolocation, Team",
author = "Sam Drake and Kim Brown and Bowyer, {Richard S.} and Bogner, {Robert E.}",
year = "2003",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1109/ICIF.2003.177433",
language = "English",
isbn = "0972184449",
series = "Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2003",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "99--106",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2003",
note = "6th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2003 ; Conference date: 08-07-2003 Through 11-07-2003",
}