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Heuristic path planning of unmanned aerial vehicle formations

Heuristic path planning of unmanned aerial vehicle formations Purpose The purpose of this research is to propose a novel method to plan paths of unmanned aerial vehicle UAV formations. This is to make use of the aerodynamic advantage of formation flight to reduce energy consumption of UAVs.Designmethodologyapproach The method proposed in this research make use of the fact that, under certain conditions, the regions where if a UAV rendezvous or separates with another UAV would save energy by formation flying can be analytically calculated. The intersections of these regions are used to decide which UAV are to fly in the same formation. This combination of which UAV are to fly together and what order they joinpart from the formation is called the topology of the problem.Findings The proposed method was proved to be effective in identifying efficient topologies, with the majority of the topologies selected falling below 5 percent error rate in terms of energy.Originalityvalue The originality of this research lies in the fact that the proposed method is completely visualised all the necessary information to organise formations is visualised in the envelopes. Still, the proposed method was proved to be effective in selecting efficient topologies. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems Emerald Publishing

Heuristic path planning of unmanned aerial vehicle formations

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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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2049-6427
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10.1108/20496421311330056
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Purpose The purpose of this research is to propose a novel method to plan paths of unmanned aerial vehicle UAV formations. This is to make use of the aerodynamic advantage of formation flight to reduce energy consumption of UAVs.Designmethodologyapproach The method proposed in this research make use of the fact that, under certain conditions, the regions where if a UAV rendezvous or separates with another UAV would save energy by formation flying can be analytically calculated. The intersections of these regions are used to decide which UAV are to fly in the same formation. This combination of which UAV are to fly together and what order they joinpart from the formation is called the topology of the problem.Findings The proposed method was proved to be effective in identifying efficient topologies, with the majority of the topologies selected falling below 5 percent error rate in terms of energy.Originalityvalue The originality of this research lies in the fact that the proposed method is completely visualised all the necessary information to organise formations is visualised in the envelopes. Still, the proposed method was proved to be effective in selecting efficient topologies.

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International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 10, 2013

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