Autonomous Mission of Multi-UAV for Optimal Area Coverage

This study proposes an entire hardware and software architecture from operator input to motor command for the autonomous area coverage mission using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. Despite the rapid growth of commercial drone services, there are many limitations on operations, such as a low decision-making autonomy and the need for experienced operators to intervene in the whole process. For performing the area coverage mission more efficiently and autonomously, this study newly designs an optimization problem that allocates waypoints created to cover that area to unmanned aerial vehicles. With an optimized list of waypoints, unmanned aerial vehicles can fill the given areas with their footprints in a minimal amount of time and do not overlap each other during the mission. In addition, this study performs both various simulations for quantitative analysis and an outdoor experiment through real hardware implementation in order to verify the performance sufficiently. The methodologies developed in this study could be applied to endless applications using unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with mission-specific sensors.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 21(2021), 7 vom: 02. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hong, Youkyung [VerfasserIn]
Jung, Sunggoo [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Suseong [VerfasserIn]
Cha, Jihun [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Area coverage
Journal Article
Mission planning
Mixed integer linear programming
Path planning
Task assignment
Unmanned aerial vehicle

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 02.05.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s21072482

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM324717407