Finding and Tracking Targets in the Wild: Algorithms and Field Deployments

Volkan Isler · Narges Noori · Patrick Plonski · Alessandro Renzaglia · Pratap Tokekar · Joshua Vander Hook

International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics 2015

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Abstract

We describe our efforts on building a robotic system for detecting and tracking radio-tagged invasive fish using teams of autonomous ground and surface vehicles. In addition to system building and field experiments, our efforts clustered around three fundamental problems: (1) Search: how to find the target as quickly as possible, (2) Active localization: how to actively choose measurement locations to accurately estimate target locations, and (3) Long-term autonomy through energy-efficiency and harvesting. We present specific problem formulations and a summary of our results so far. We conclude the paper with a discussion on our progress and next steps.

@inproceedings{ isler2015finding,
    title = "Finding and Tracking Targets in the Wild: Algorithms and Field Deployments",
    author = {Volkan Isler and Narges Noori and Patrick Plonski and Alessandro Renzaglia and Pratap Tokekar and Joshua {Vander Hook}},
    booktitle = {International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics},
    year = "2015",
    doi = "10.1109/SSRR.2015.7442996",
}