Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

DCNS

Participants : Benoîte de Saporta, François Dufour, Huilong Zhang.

In september 2010, an industrial collaboration started with DCNS on the application of Markov Decision Processes to optimal stochastic control of a submarine to maximize the acoustic signature of a target vessel. In 2012, we extended our previous results to multiple target vessels and 3D control. We also coupled our code with the output of a tracking software to take more realistically into account the uncertainty on the position and speed of the targets. In 2013, we coupled our optimization procedure with the output of the tracking algorithms to estimate the positions of the targets.