Communication Issues in the Cooperative Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Abstract

Communication needs are considered for the cooperative control of unmanned aerial vehicles with resource allocation performed by a network flow which may be iterative, and may operate synchronously or asynchronously. We briefly outline single and iterative network flow assignment algorithms and their communication requirements. Then, we consider the abstracted communication framework recently incorporated into the MultiUAV simulation package to manage the communication requirements of the allocation algorithms and implementation scenarios. As an example, a model is constructed to investigate the effect of fixed communication delays on the performance of an iterative network flow implemented as a redundant, centralized optimization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA419478

Entities

People

  • Andrew G. Sparks
  • Jason W. Mitchell

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Craft
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Classification
  • Communication Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Cooperative Control
  • Military Research
  • Optimization
  • Simulations
  • Target Recognition
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

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  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control