Guidance of Autonomous Amphibious Vehicles for Flood Rescue Support

Shankarachary Ragi, ChingSeong Tan and Edwin K. P. Chong

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-9

Abstract:

We develop a path-planning algorithm to guide autonomous amphibious vehicles (AAVs) for flood rescue support missions. Specifically, we develop an algorithm to control multiple AAVs to reach/rescue multiple victims (also called targets) in a flood scenario in 2D, where the flood water flows across the scene and the targets move (drifted by the flood water) along the flood stream. A target is said to be rescued if an AAV lies within a circular region of a certain radius around the target. The goal is to control the AAVs such that each target gets rescued while optimizing a certain performance objective. The algorithm design is based on the theory of partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). In practice, POMDP problems are hard to solve exactly, so we use an approximation method called nominal belief-state optimization (NBO). We compare the performance of the NBO approach with a greedy approach.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/528162

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