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Coordinated trajectory planning for efficient communication relay using multiple UAVs
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posted on 2015-06-12, 15:46 authored by Seungkeun Kim, Hd Oh, Jinyoung Suk, Antonios TsourdosThis paper investigates the use of small UAVs as communication relay nodes for expanding communication links and improving communication quality for a fleet of naval vessels. This paper firstly deals with the UAV deployment for stationary communication nodes, and then, proposes a decentralised nonlinear model predictive trajectory planning strategy for a dynamic environment. By exploiting motion estimates of vessels and states of UAVs, the trajectory planning algorithm finds a control input sequence optimising network connectivity over a certain time horizon. Numerical simulations are performed for both stationary and manoeuvring vessels to verify the feasibility and benefit of the proposed approach.
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Published in
CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICEVolume
29Pages
42 - 49 (8)Citation
KIM, S. ... et al, 2014. Coordinated trajectory planning for efficient communication relay using multiple UAVs. Control Engineering Practice, 29, pp. 42 - 49.Publisher
© Elsevier LtdVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
This paper was published in the journal Control Engineering Practice [© Elsevier Ltd]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2014.04.003.ISSN
0967-0661Publisher version
Language
- en