Multi-robot Task Assignment for Aerial Tracking with Viewpoint Constraints
Aaron Ray (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alyssa Pierson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
H. Zhu (TU Delft - Learning & Autonomous Control)
J. Alonso-Mora (TU Delft - Learning & Autonomous Control)
Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Abstract
We address the problem of assigning a team of drones to autonomously capture a set desired shots of a dynamic target in the presence of obstacles. We present a two-stage planning pipeline that generates offline an assignment of drone to shots and locally optimizes online the viewpoint. Given desired shot parameters, the high-level planner uses a visibility heuristic to predict good times for capturing each shot and uses an Integer Linear Program to compute drone assignments. An online Model Predictive Control algorithm uses the assignments as reference to capture the shots. The algorithm is validated in hardware with a pair of drones and a remote controlled car.