Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Most autonomous vehicles, especially high-performance aircraft, must perceive their environment very rapidly using limited computing and sensing resources. In many high-performance applications, slight deviations in the trajectory of the vehicle may enable substantial increase in perception capabilities. Therefore, the trajectory of the vehicle must be chosen carefully to optimize, not only trajectory objectives, but also perception objectives.
Most autonomous vehicles, especially high-performance aircraft, must perceive their environment very rapidly using limited computing and sensing resources. In many high-performance applications, slight deviations in the trajectory of the vehicle may enable substantial increase in perception capabilities. Therefore, the trajectory of the vehicle must be chosen carefully to optimize, not only trajectory objectives, but also perception objectives. In fact, optimizing perception objectives may enable a better envelope of trajectory objectives.
