Title
Dynamic Control Scheme of Multiswarm Persistent Surveillance in a Changing Environment.
Abstract
The persistent surveillance problem has been proved to be an NP hard problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle systems (UAVs). However, most studies in multiple UAV control focus on control cooperative path planning in a single swarm, while dynamic deployment of a multiswarm system is neglected. This paper proposes a collective control scheme to drive a multiswarm UAVs system to spread out over a time-sensible environment to provide persistent adaptive sensor coverage in event-related surveillance scenarios. We design the digital turf model to approximate the mixture information of mission requirements and surveillance reward. Moreover, we design a data clustering-based algorithm for the dynamic assignment of UAV swarms, which can promote workload balance, while also allowing real-time response to emergencies. Finally, we evaluate the proposed architecture by means of simulation and find that our method is superior to the conventional control strategy in terms of detection efficiency and subswarm equilibrium degree.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1155/2019/6025657
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE
Field
DocType
Volume
Motion planning,Architecture,Software deployment,Swarm behaviour,Computer science,Workload,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Machine learning,Distributed computing
Journal
2019
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1687-5265
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tian Jing100.68
Wang Weiping233563.84
Tao Wang36123.52
Xiaobo Li4112.34
Xin Zhou51913.00