Self-Triggered Time Coordinated Deployment Strategy for Multiple Relay UAVs to Work as a Point-to-Point Communication Bridge

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

Authors

Braga, J (Author) Other; Praveen Jain, RP (Author) Other; Aguiar, AP (Author) FEUP; João Tasso Sousa (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2017 WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (RED-UAS)

Pages: 1-6

Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS)

Linkoping, SWEDEN, OCT 03-05, 2017

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-RJ7

DOI: 10.1109/red-uas.2017.8101634

Abstract (EN): The use of multiple heterogeneous, low-cost, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as a tool in several application domains is becoming increasingly important. One critical aspect to enable the use of such vehicles is the coordination/ planning system, whose task complexity increases with the number of vehicles and the communications constraints that arise due to their small size and large distances. In this work, we propose a control architecture for a platoon of relay UAVs that are independent of the coordination system. The platoon task consists in interconnecting the communication link between the possibly mobile command station and a UAV in a mission. The relays are actively driven to deploy, create a network and maintain a desired Quality-of-Service (QoS) level, defined in this paper. We present an architecture that is composed by a waypoint generator based on the network QoS and a Time Coordinated Path Following (TCPF) controller with a method to reduce the frequency of information exchange between the relay UAVs, through the use of a selftriggered control strategy. Exploiting this architecture, it is possible to plan a mission operation for a UAV without the need of considering vehicle-to-command-station communication constraints that will be satisfied by the introduction of the relayUAVs platoon. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the efficacy of the developed strategy. The self-triggered approach results in significant reduction of information exchange between the relay UAVs, while maintaining the user desired network QoS.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6