Effects of Target Arrival Rate on Mission Performance of Cooperatively Controlled UAVs with Comunication Constraints

Abstract

The authors investigate the effects of target arrival rate on the communication and mission performance of cooperatively controlled uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) with task allocation performed by iterative network flow. Specifically, they quantify the effect of arrival rate on observed statistics of communication and mission performance. The statistics of interest are peak communication data rate and execution defects. The effects are seen in a series of vehicle-target scenarios simulated in the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's MultiUAV environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 17, 2004
Accession Number
ADA445062

Entities

People

  • Andrew G. Sparks
  • Jason W. Mitchell
  • Steven J. Rasmussen

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Classification
  • Control Systems
  • Cooperative Control
  • Data Rate
  • Data Sets
  • Defense Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Target Recognition
  • Vehicles

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