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Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory Research and Development at the Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington Seattle, WA Guggenheim 109, AERB 214 (206)

Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington3 Coordination of Heterogeneous Vehicles Base Transition Obstacle/Threat Avoidance Searching/Target ID Coordination w/ surface vehicles Pattern hold/Team assembly

Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington4 Coordination and Communication with Autonomous Surface Vehicles At strategic level, UAVs can provide improved target tasking and routing information to surface vehicles Autonomous path planning for surface vehicles through non- structured environments enhanced by UAV information At tactical level, UAVs can track evasive targets and update world estimates Currently funded under WTC Phase I Fall/Winter ‘05

Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington5 Goals and Advantages Goals Use multiple low-cost UAVs to cooperatively track targets Ability to mark targets, report to central database, report to deployed surface vehicles Improve quality and quantity of ISR data and battlefield awareness Advantages Tracking targets with tactical UAVs can require high operator workload Evasive targets could fool a single UAV

Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington6 Simulation Visualization Autonomous Orbit Coordination for Multiple UAVs

Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington7 Simulation Results Effects of Radius and Airspeed Manipulation

Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington8 Simulation Results Effects of Radius and Airspeed Manipulation

Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington9 Orbit Coordination Maintains relative phase angle between two UAVs in presence of disturbance Nonlinear issues dealing with asymmetry of varying orbits Joint effort between UW, Cornell, U of Calgary, and The Insitu Group Insitu SeaScan tracking moving target

Aeronautics & Astronautics Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory University of Washington10 Contact Us Investigators Dr. Rolf Dr. Uy-Loi Dr. Juris Dr. Kristi Dr. Anawat Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory Guggenheim 109 (206) Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Laboratory AERB 120 (206)