Inria Challenge IMAnAI

Improved Bearings-only Target Motion Analysis Using AI Tools

The conventional problem of bearings-only target motion analysis (BOTMA) is studied in the project. It assumes that the two mobile agents, observer and target, are on the same plane and that they (or at least target) have a constant speed during the observation time period. The goal is to estimate the position of a target, namely two coordinates of geographical location and the projections of the speed on two axes, from a set of available bearing measurements collected by the observer. To this end, the researchers of IIT Delhi, Naval Group and Inria are going to develop various estimation and tracking algorithms by combining modern methods from the theories of control, estimation, tracking and artificial intelligence.

Supported: CEFIPRA, Naval Group

Participants:

  • Inria side
    • David Daney, Auctus team (Bordeaux)
    • Alain Kibangou and Hassen Fourati, Dance team (Grenoble)
    • Francois Charpillet, Larsen team (Nancy)
    • Hemant Tiagi, Modal team (Lille)
    • Denis Efimov, Valse team (Lille), PI
  • IIT Delhi side
    • Arpan Chattopadhyay, Indra Narayan Kar and Sandeep Kumar, Electrical Engineering department
    • Arun Kumar, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE)

Recruitments:

  • Ajul Dinesh, post-doc, 03/2024–03/2026, Valse
  • Isaac Ambit Brao, doc, 01/10/2024–30/09/2027, Modal-Valse
  • Yann Cauchepin, doc CIFRE NG, 01/12/2024–30/11/2027, Dance

Publications:

Ajul Dinesh, Denis Efimov,  Non-linear Observer Design for Bearing-only Target Motion Analysis. Proc. European Control Conference, Thessaloniki, 2025