@inproceedings{1e7c8d859a384255b9ab01c3cf5f1f82,
title = "Contaminant cloud boundary monitoring using UAV sensor swarms",
abstract = "In this paper we describe research work currently being undertaken to detect, model and track the shape of a contaminant cloud boundary using air borne sensor swarms. The model of the cloud boundary is then used to predict the future evolution of the cloud shape so that an airborne sensor swarm of UAVs can perform manoeuvres that will enable the exact shape and track of the cloud to be determined accurately and in a timely fashion. The contaminant cloud models currently used are usually based on numerical techniques. However in this research work the kinematics of the evolving cloud to approximate the shape of the cloud using splinegons is explored. This approach is efficient in that only the vertices and segment curvatures are required to define the cloud boundary, rather than a distribution function.",
author = "White, {B. A.} and A. Tsourdos and I. Ashokoraj and S. Subchan and R. Zbikowski",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.2514/6.2007-6761",
language = "English",
isbn = "1563479044",
series = "Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2007",
publisher = "American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.",
pages = "4014--4035",
booktitle = "Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2007",
note = "AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2007 ; Conference date: 20-08-2007 Through 23-08-2007",
}