Optimal strategies for the control of autonomous vehicles in data assimilation

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2017

Abstract

We propose a method to compute optimal control paths for autonomous vehicles deployed for the purpose of inferring a velocity field. In addition to being advected by the flow, the vehicles are able to effect a fixed relative speed with arbitrary control over direction. It is this direction that is used as the basis for the locally optimal control algorithm presented here, with objective formed from the variance trace of the expected posterior distribution. We present results for linear flows near hyperbolic fixed points.

Identifier

85019618586 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2017.04.001

ISSN

01672789

First Page

42

Last Page

52

Volume

351-352

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