Coordinated Multi-UAV Exploration Strategy for Large Areas with Communication Constrains

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2017

Authors

Braga, J (Author) Other; Aguiar, AP (Author) FEUP; de Sousa, JB (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference - Volume 1, Seville, Spain, November 22-24, 2017

Pages: 149-160

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-829

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70833-1_13

Abstract (EN): In missions that require robotic vehicles operating with a high level of autonomy, the coordination and the tasks assigned for each vehicle play a crucial role. In this work, we present a coordination control strategy applied in a searching scenario of oceanographic research buoys taking into account the problem of communication constraints. The proposed control strategy include the assignment of two different teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that search and acquire data from buoys with unknown locations in complex coastal or remote oceanic regions. We present a 3-layer architecture that search for the buoys, enables communication with them, and creates a UAV communication network with a quality-of-service scheme to recover the data. Extensive simulations illustrate the performance of the proposed coordinated control strategy. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific