UC San Diego

Technological advances in unmanned sensor vehicles allows the possibility to solving the Adaptive Observation problem with moving sensors. This problem is addressed in this thesis. Toward applying the solution in real-world problems, the derivation of the solution is broken down into three incremental steps. The first step involves solving a simpler problem at infinite time with stationary sensors. The second step take the theory establish in step one and augment it with vehicle dynamics in finite time. The last step takes a look at implementation issues when implement the theory develop in step two, and make appropriate modifications in order to derive a feasible and practical algorithm