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From Random Process to Chaotic Behavior in Swarms of UAVs
Rosalie, Martin; Danoy, Grégoire; Chaumette, Serge et al.
2016In DIVANet '16 Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications
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Keywords :
cooperative UAVs; multilevel swarms; mobility models; ACO; chaotic systems
Abstract :
[en] Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications have seen an important increase in the last decade for both military and civilian applications ranging from fire and high seas rescue to military surveillance and target detection. While this technology is now mature for a single UAV, new methods are needed to operate UAVs in swarms, also referred to as fleets. This work focuses on the mobility management of one single autonomous swarm of UAVs which mission is to cover a given area in order to collect information. Several constraints are applied to the swarm to solve this problem due to the military context. First, the UAVs mobility must be as unpredictable as possible to prevent any UAV tracking. However the Ground Control Station (GCS) operator(s) still needs to be able to forecast the UAVs paths. Finally, the UAVs are autonomous in order to guarantee the mission continuity in a hostile environment and the method must be distributed to ensure fault-tolerance of the system. To solve this problem, we introduce the Chaotic Ant Colony Optimization to Coverage (CACOC) algorithm that combines an Ant Colony Optimization approach (ACO) with a chaotic dynamical system. CACOC permits to obtain a deterministic but unpredictable system. Its performance is compared to other state-of-the art models from the literature using several coverage-related metrics, i.e. coverage rate, recent coverage and fairness. Numerical results obtained by simulation underline the performance of our CACOC method: a deterministic method with unpredictable UAV trajectories that still ensures a high area coverage.
Research center :
ULHPC - University of Luxembourg: High Performance Computing
Disciplines :
Computer science
Mathematics
Author, co-author :
Rosalie, Martin ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)
Danoy, Grégoire  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)
Chaumette, Serge;  University of Bordeaux > LaBRI
Bouvry, Pascal ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
From Random Process to Chaotic Behavior in Swarms of UAVs
Publication date :
November 2016
Event name :
6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications
Event organizer :
Robson E. De Grande, NSERC DIVA Research Centre, Canada
Event place :
La Valette, Malta
Event date :
from 13-11-2016 to 17-11-2016
Audience :
International
Main work title :
DIVANet '16 Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications
Publisher :
ACM, New York, United States
ISBN/EAN :
978-1-4503-4506-4
Pages :
9-15
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Computational Sciences
Name of the research project :
R-AGR-0548 - ASIMUT (20150127-20170126) - BOUVRY Pascal
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