Cooperative Multi-AAV Path Planning for Discovering and Tracking Multiple Radio-Tagged Targets
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Discovering and tracking wildlife targets are essential for gaining insights into the behavioral patterns and habits of animals within their natural habitats. With low cost and high maneuverability, mini autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) can achieve robust and rapid locating and tracking of multiple targets through collaboration. This work proposes a method for multitarget task allocation and path planning for AAV swarms, addressing the challenges of locating and tracking multiple wildlife with very high frequency (VHF) radio tags while avoiding potential disturbances to the wildlife. Our approach proposes a layered framework for the multi-AAV multitarget wildlife tracking problem: 1) the state estimation layer performs fast receiver signal strength indicator (RSSI) signal acquisition and employs the particle filtering algorithm to localize targets’ positions; 2) the task assignment layer uses a quadratic allocation method for AAVs’ real-time target allocation, starting with reasonable initial target sets via mixed-integer programming and efficiently readjusting targets based on real-time environment; and 3) the motion planning layer introduces an optimization-based approach to generate smooth and executable trajectories that can simultaneously ensure desired safe distances from objects of interest. Simulation experiments validate the effectiveness of the obtained AAV swarm tracking scheme.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".