Student research opportunities
Localization of UAVs in a GPS denied environment
Project Code: CECS_1176
This project is available at the following levels:
Engn4200, Engn R&D, Honours
Please note that this project is only for undergraduate students.
Keywords:
Localization, Unmanned airborne vehicles, multiagent systems, formation control
Supervisor:
Professor Brian AndersonOutline:
The project is available for an extremely able undergraduate, and has been proposed by the Australian Defence Science Technology Group. There is interest in flying formations of unmanned airborne vehicles where one vehicle has operational GPS, and the other vehicles are GPS-denied. Other vehicles do have inertial navigation systems, which because they drift, are only consistent over a period of minutes, and do not yield information to track a vehicle in global coordinates. WIth measurements of distance between the GPS-equipped vehicle and non-GPS equipped vehicles, it is possible to localize the non-GPS vehicles in global coordinates. The problem remaining is to do this when there are bearing rather than distance mesaurements between the GPS vehicle and non-GPS vehicle. A graduate student, Ben Ye, will be a cosupervisor.
Goals of this project
Complete at least one joint paper with DSTG scientist and the project supervisors.
Requirements/Prerequisites
HIgh level of mathematical skill
Student Gain
Experience with a challenging scientific problem driven by an end-user. Experience in writing and team research.
Background Literature
Completed paper on localization given intervehicle distance measurements
