A hierarchical approach for planning a multisensor multizone search for a moving target

Authors:
Cécile Simonin;Jean-Pierre Le Cadre;Frédéric Dambreville
Affiliations:
IRISA/CNRS, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes (cedex), France;IRISA/CNRS, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes (cedex), France;DGA, 16 bis avenue prieur de la Côte d'or, 94114 Arcueil, France
Venue:
Computers and Operations Research
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper deals with a well-known problem in the general area of search theory: optimize the search resources sharing so as to maximize the probability of detection of a (moving) target. However, the problem we consider here considerably differs from the classical one. First, there is a bilevel search planning and we have to consider jointly discrete and continuous optimization problems. To this perspective original methods are proposed within a common framework. Furthermore, this framework is sufficiently general and versatile so as to be easily and successfully extended to the difficult problem of the multizone multisensor search planning for a Markovian target.