Coverage for robotics – A survey of recent results
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Exhaustive Geographic Search with Mobile Robots Along Space-Filling Curves
CRW '98 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Collective Robotics
Evolving cooperative strategies for UAV teams
GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
A framework for guaranteeing detection performance of a sensor network
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering - Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
On reduced time fault tolerant paths for multiple UAVs covering a hostile terrain
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Swarm simulation and performance evaluation
ACMOS'08 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on Automatic Control, Modelling & Simulation
Collaborative microdrones: applications and research challenges
Autonomics '08 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems
Bio-inspired visual attention in agile sensing for target detection
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Markovian search games in heterogeneous spaces
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Cooperative control of UAVs for localization of intermittently emitting mobile targets
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics - Special issue on cybernetics and cognitive informatics
Reverse-engineering of artificially evolved controllers for swarms of robots
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Event Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Ordered versus Self-organized Search
IWSOS '09 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 6 International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Static and expanding grid coverage with ant robots: Complexity results
Theoretical Computer Science
Multi-agent Cooperative Cleaning of Expanding Domains
International Journal of Robotics Research
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Agent-based simulation for UAV swarm mission planning and execution
Proceedings of the Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium
Agent-based simulation of cooperative hunting with UAVs
Proceedings of the Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium
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We design and analyze the performance of cooperative search strategies for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) searching for moving, possibly evading, targets in a hazardous environment. Rather than engaging in independent sensing missions, the sensing agents (UAVs with sensors) "work together" by arranging themselves into a flight configuration that optimizes their integrated sensing capability. If a UAV is shot down by enemy fire, the team adapts by reconfiguring its topology to optimally continue the mission with the surviving assets. We presetn a cooperative search methodology that integrates the multiple agents into an advantageous formation that distinctively enhances the sensing and detection operations of the system while minimizing the transmission of excessive control information for adaptation of the team's topology. After analyzing our strategy to determine the performance tradeoff between search time and number of UAVs employed, we present an algorithm that selects the minimum number of UAVs to deploy in order to meet a targeted search time within probabilistic guarantees.