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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A State Space Partitioning Scheme for Vehicle Control in Pursuit-Evasion Scenarios

Goode, Brian Joseph 01 November 2011 (has links)
Pursuit-evasion games are the subject of a variety of research initiatives seeking to provide some level of autonomy to mobile, robotic vehicles with on-board controllers. Applications of these controllers include defense topics such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) navigation for threat surveillance, assessment, or engagement. Controllers implementing pursuit-evasion algorithms are also used for improving everyday tasks such as driving in traffic when used for collision avoidance maneuvers. Currently, pursuit-evasion tactics are incorporated into the control by solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) equation explicitly, simplifying the solution using approximate dynamic programming, or using a purely finite-horizon approach. Unfortunately, these methods are either subject to difficulties of long computational times or having no guarantees of succeeding in the pursuit-evasion game. This leads to more difficulties of implementing these tactics on-line in a real robotic scenario where the opposing agent may not be known before the maneuver is required. This dissertation presents a novel method of solving the HJI equation by partitioning the state space into regions of local, finite horizon control laws. As a result, the HJI equation can be reduced to solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation recursively as information is received about an opposing agent. Adding complexity to the problem structure results in a decreased calculation time to allow pursuit-evasion tactics to be calculated on-board an agent during a scenario. The algorithms and implementation methods are given explicitly and illustrated with an example of two robotic vehicles in a collision avoidance maneuver. / Ph. D.

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