Parallel Region Coverage Using Multiple UAVs

Agarwal, Amit; Hiot, Lim Meng; Nghia, Nguyen Trung; Joo, Er Meng

doi:10.1109/aero.2006.1656025

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“…For example, Ha et al 28 studied a deterministic model with identical UAVs and obtained the minimum number of required UAVs to ensure continuous coverage. Agarwal et al 29 considered the problem of minimizing the time needed to cover a region of interest (i.e., overlay a contiguous rectilinear polygonal workspace using UAVs). Ahmadzadeh et al 30 described an overall framework and some algorithms for the computation of trajectories that maximizes communication coverage of UAVs.…”

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Simulation study of unmanned aerial vehicle communication networks addressing bandwidth disruptions

Wei

et al. 2014

SPIE Proceedings

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To date, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used for numerous applications. UAVs can directly connect to ground stations or satellites to transfer data. Multiple UAVs can communicate and cooperate with each other and then construct an ad-hoc network. Multi-UAV systems have the potential to provide reliable and timely services for end users in addition to satellite networks. In this paper, we conduct a simulation study for evaluating the network performance of multi-UAV systems and satellite networks using the ns-2 networking simulation tool. Our simulation results show that UAV communication networks can achieve better network performance than satellite networks and with a lower cost and increased timeliness. We also investigate security resiliency of UAV networks. As a case study, we simulate false data injection attacks against UAV communication networks in ns-2 and demonstrate the impact of false data injection attacks on network performance.

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Simulation study of unmanned aerial vehicle communication networks addressing bandwidth disruptions

Wei

et al. 2014

SPIE Proceedings

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“…With the rising interest toward using multiple UAVs for civil applications, different architectures to coordinate the simultaneous flights of UAVs [6,13] are suggested. The architecture design varies based on the application, expected quality-of-service (QoS), and type of UAVs.…”

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“…To allow easy deployment of the system, human intervention shall be minimized. Unlike other works [6,9], we do not merely rely on a centralized base station control for navigation or coordination. Each UAV is capable of performing detection independently.…”

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An Autonomous Multi-UAV System for Search and Rescue

Scherer

Yahyanejad

Hayat

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use

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This paper proposes and evaluates a modular architecture of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for search and rescue missions. Multiple multicopters are coordinated using a distributed control system. The system is implemented in the Robot Operating System (ROS) and is capable of providing a real-time video stream from a UAV to one or more base stations using a wireless communications infrastructure. The system supports a heterogeneous set of UAVs and camera sensors. If necessary, an operator can interfere and reduce the autonomy. The system has been tested in an outdoor mission serving as a proof of concept. Some insights from these tests are described in the paper.

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“…For the tasks of surveillance and exploration, aerial vehicles offer the advantage of wider area coverage [77] and essentially being able to ignore terrain [13], though certain applications might require maneuvering through obstacles [29,167]. Agarwal, Hiot, Nghia, and Joo [173] say that low-flying small-endurance UAVs are well suited for region coverage over air-bases or urban zones, since they are cheap, highly maneuverable, and expendable. Hence they have been gaining considerable attention over the past decade [28].…”

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The Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicle Persistent Surveillance Problem: A Review

Nigam

2014

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Control of autonomous vehicles for applications such as surveillance, search, and exploration has been a topic of great interest over the past two decades. In particular, there has been a rising interest in control of multiple vehicles for reasons such as increase in system reliability, robustness, and efficiency, with a possible reduction in cost. The exploration problem is NP hard even for a single vehicle/agent, and the use of multiple vehicles brings forth a whole new suite of problems associated with communication and cooperation between vehicles. The persistent surveillance problem differs from exploration since it involves continuous/repeated coverage of the target space, minimizing time between re-visits. The use of aerial vehicles demands consideration of vehicle dynamic and endurance constraints as well. Another aspect of the problem that has been investigated to a lesser extent is the design of the vehicles for particular missions. The intent of this paper is to thoroughly review the persistent surveillance problem, with particular focus on multiple Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), and present some of our own work in this area. We investigate the different aspects of the problem and slightly digress into techniques that have been applied to exploration and coverage, but a comprehensive survey of all the work in multiple vehicle control for search, exploration, and coverage is beyond the scope of this paper.

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Parallel Region Coverage Using Multiple UAVs

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Simulation study of unmanned aerial vehicle communication networks addressing bandwidth disruptions

Simulation study of unmanned aerial vehicle communication networks addressing bandwidth disruptions

An Autonomous Multi-UAV System for Search and Rescue

The Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicle Persistent Surveillance Problem: A Review

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