Real-Time Moving Target Search

  • Authors:
  • Cagatay Undeger;Faruk Polat

  • Affiliations:
  • Savunma Teknolojileri Muhendislik ve Tic.A.S., Ankara, Turkey 06510;Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 06531

  • Venue:
  • Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a real-time moving target search algorithm for dynamic and partially observable environments, modeled as grid world. The proposed algorithm, Real-time Moving Target Evaluation Search (MTES), is able to detect the closed directions around the agent, and determine the best direction that avoids the nearby obstacles, leading to a moving target which is assumed to be escaping almost optimally. We compared our proposal with Moving Target Search (MTS) and observed a significant improvement in the solution paths. Furthermore, we also tested our algorithm against A* in order to report quality of our solutions.