Abstract
Reduced costs of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) including sensors combined with increased on-board computational power expands the area of application of UAS from strictly military operations to civil emergency and disaster management.
The SkyObserver project is aimed to develop a tool for emergency management based on an autonomous swarm to deal with various tasks in the case of a civil hazard. In these and similar tasks the deployment and exploration problems are critical challenges in the coordination and path planning of an autonomous swarm. Additionally robustness and scalability requirements have to be taken into account.
This paper gives an overview of available and suitable methods and algorithms solving the deployment and exploration problems in context of a civil operation. Simulation results show the capabilities as well as robustness and scalability of the selected methods.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Fields of science
- 203 Mechanical Engineering
- 202034 Control engineering
- 202012 Electrical measurement technology
- 206 Medical Engineering
- 202027 Mechatronics
- 202003 Automation
- 203027 Internal combustion engines
- 207109 Pollutant emission
JKU Focus areas
- Mechatronics and Information Processing