UAV Cooperative Decision and Control：Challenges and Practical Approaches

Future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems will have a high level of autonomy and the capability of working cooperatively in groups, providing an opportunity for new operational paradigms. In this context, a concentrated research effort has been conducted in recent years to develop novel cooperative decision and control algorithms.
This book provides an authoritative reference on U.S. Air Force-relevant UAV cooperative decision and control problems and the means developed to solve them. The problems are presented in a manner that abstracts the challenges, making it possible to leverage the solution methods over a broader range of applications. The book is aimed at practitioners, academicians, and students.

Tal Shima is a senior lecturer with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion?Israel Institute of Technology and is a Horev Fellow in the institute?s Leaders in Science and Technology program. His research interests include cooperative decision and control for unmanned systems; missile guidance, control, and estimation; differential games; sensor networks; and optimization. Steven J. Rasmussen is employed by Miami Valley Aerospace, LLC, as a consultant to the United States Air Force Research Laboratory?s Control Science Center of Excellence. He is also Technical Director of RasSimTech, LTD, a simulation software company.