Target Tracking with a Flexible UAV Cluster Array
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cluster applications, for tasks such as target localisation and tracking, are required to collect and utilise the data received on "flexible" sensor arrays, where the sensors, i.e. UAVs in this scenario, have time variant positions. In this paper, using a parametric channel model, a UAV cluster mobility model and a kinematic model of the targets, an extended Kalman based state space model is proposed that tracks the unknown UAV positions and target parameters snapshot by snapshot. Simulation studies illustrating the tracking capabilities of the proposed technique have been presented.
2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)