The Hunter-Prey Competition

Funded by Battelle, Mr. Michael Mellott

Hunter-Prey is a competition is competition involving Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) hunting one or more Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) using a range-only sensor.

The hunter-prey scenario is depicted in the figure below. The teams consist of a hunter team of one or more surface vehicles, and a prey or evasion team of one or more underwater vehicles. The objective of the hunter team is to detect, localize, track and intercept the prey. The evasion team evades while achieving its transiting objectives through the operation area.

Principal Investigators:

  • Michael Benjamin, mikerb@mit.edu
  • Henrik Schmidt, henrik@mit.edu