Occlusion-aware multi-UAV surveillance

Occlusion-aware Multi-UAV Surveillance of Multiple Urban Areas

We present an agent-based coordination and planning method for aerial surveillance of multiple urban areas using a group of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The method differs from the existing work by explicit consideration of sensor occlusions that can occur due to high buildings and other obstacles in the target area. The solution employs a decomposition of the problem in two subp...

Experimental Results in Multi-UAV Coordination for Disaster Management and Civil Security Applications

This paper describes a multi-UAV distributed decisional architecture developed in the framework of the AWARE Project together with a set of tests with real Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to validate this approach in disaster management and civil security applications. The paper presents the different components of the AWARE platform and the scenario in which...

Connectivity Maintenance Based on Multiple Relay UAVs Selection Scheme in Cooperative Surveillance

For the purpose of remote command and situation awareness, multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) cooperative surveillance with a ground station via multihop communications is presented in this paper. Considering limited communication capacities, a reliable UAV-to-UAV communication relay chain is dynamically established for connectivity maintenance and real-time surveillance information trans...

Model-Based Design of End-to-End Quality of Service in a Multi- UAV Surveillance and Target Tracking Application

Sensor-Oriented Path Planning for Multiregion Surveillance with a Single Lightweight UAV SAR

In the surveillance of interested regions by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), system performance relies greatly on the motion control strategy of the UAV and the operation characteristics of the onboard sensors. This paper investigates the 2D path planning problem for the lightweight UAV synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system in an environment of multiple regions of interest (ROIs), the sizes of w...