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Optimal positioning of communication relay unmanned aerial vehicles in urban environments
conference contribution
posted on 2016-10-07, 08:13 authored by Pawel Ladosz, Hyondong Oh, Wen-Hua ChenWen-Hua ChenThis paper proposes a method of finding the optimal position of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) functioning as a communication relay node to improve the network connectivity and communication performance of a team of ground nodes/vehicles. A three-dimensional complex urban environment containing many buildings is considered where the line-of-sight between ground nodes is often blocked. The particle swarm optimisation is used to find the optimal UAV position using three different communication performance metrics depending on the requirement. Numerical simulations are performed to show the advantage of using relay UAVs and the specific metric in sample scenarios. An indoor proof-of-concept experiment is also performed to show the feasibility of the proposed approach in a real time.
Funding
This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) under the Grant EP/J011525/1.
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Published in
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'16) 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2016Pages
1140 - 1147Citation
LADOSZ, P., OH, H. and CHEN, W.-H., 2016. Optimal positioning of communication relay unmanned aerial vehicles in urban environments. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2016), Arlington, VA USA, 7th-10th June 2016, pp. 1140-1147.Publisher
© IEEEVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Acceptance date
2016-05-06Publication date
2016Notes
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9781467393331Publisher version
Language
- en