abstract = "Autonomous navigation controllers were developed for
fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications
using multi-objective genetic programming (GP). Four
fitness functions derived from flight simulations were
designed and multi-objective GP was used to evolve
controllers able to locate a radar source, navigate the
UAV to the source efficiently using on-board sensor
measurements, and circle around the emitter.
Controllers were evolved for three different kinds of
radars: stationary, continuously emitting radars,
stationary, intermittently emitting radars, and mobile,
continuously emitting radars. In this study, realistic
flight parameters and sensor inputs were selected to
aid in the transference of evolved controllers to
physical UAVs.",
notes = "Winner of Best Paper at the Graduate Student Workshop
at the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-2004).
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/GECCO-2004/awards-winners.html