Overall Project Objectives:


Develop and evaluate the performance of strategies for distributed coordination and cooperative control of autonomous air vehicles that seek to gather information about a dynamic target environment, evade threats, and coordinate strikes against targets. A schematic diagram that shows the types of situations that we will consider is shown in the figure below.

 

We will apply the developed approaches to an autonomous munitions (AM) problem. In this case we can consider over 10 AMs, ignore threats, and only focus on how to coordinate a swarm of AMs to effectively eliminate mobile targets.