Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception
As an emerging topic, the swarm of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been attracting great attention. Due to the indeterminacy of sensors, distributed cooperative swarms have been considered to be efficient and robust but challenging to design and test. To facilitate the development of...
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| description | As an emerging topic, the swarm of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been attracting great attention. Due to the indeterminacy of sensors, distributed cooperative swarms have been considered to be efficient and robust but challenging to design and test. To facilitate the development of distributed swarms, it has been proposed to utilise a simulation platform for cooperative UAVs using imperfect perception. However, the existing simulation platforms cannot satisfy this demand due to a few reasons. First, they are designed for a specific purpose, and their functionalities are difficult to extend. Second, the existing platforms lack compatibility to be applied to different types of scenarios. Third, the modelling of these platforms is too simplified to simulate flight motion dynamic and noisy communication accurately, which may cause a difference in performance between the simulation and real-world application. To address the mentioned issues, this paper models the problem and proposes a simulation platform for distributed swarm cooperative perception, which addresses software engineering concerns and provides a set of extendable functionalities of a cooperative swarm, including communication, estimation, perception fusion, and path planning. The applicability of the proposed platform is verified by simulations with the real-world application. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed system is viable. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-988a4ea7fd5649cd8d7a20d15dd409da2025-02-03T06:46:22ZengWileyInternational Journal of Aerospace Engineering1687-59661687-59742021-01-01202110.1155/2021/99772629977262Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and PerceptionHaifeng Ling0Hongchuan Luo1Haisong Chen2Linyuan Bai3Tao Zhu4Yanjun Wang5College of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing 210003, ChinaCollege of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing 210003, ChinaCollege of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing 210003, ChinaCollege of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing 210003, ChinaCollege of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing 210003, ChinaNo. 94789 Unit of PLA, Nanjing 210003, ChinaAs an emerging topic, the swarm of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been attracting great attention. Due to the indeterminacy of sensors, distributed cooperative swarms have been considered to be efficient and robust but challenging to design and test. To facilitate the development of distributed swarms, it has been proposed to utilise a simulation platform for cooperative UAVs using imperfect perception. However, the existing simulation platforms cannot satisfy this demand due to a few reasons. First, they are designed for a specific purpose, and their functionalities are difficult to extend. Second, the existing platforms lack compatibility to be applied to different types of scenarios. Third, the modelling of these platforms is too simplified to simulate flight motion dynamic and noisy communication accurately, which may cause a difference in performance between the simulation and real-world application. To address the mentioned issues, this paper models the problem and proposes a simulation platform for distributed swarm cooperative perception, which addresses software engineering concerns and provides a set of extendable functionalities of a cooperative swarm, including communication, estimation, perception fusion, and path planning. The applicability of the proposed platform is verified by simulations with the real-world application. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed system is viable.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9977262 |
| spellingShingle | Haifeng Ling Hongchuan Luo Haisong Chen Linyuan Bai Tao Zhu Yanjun Wang Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception International Journal of Aerospace Engineering |
| title | Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception |
| title_full | Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception |
| title_fullStr | Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception |
| title_short | Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception |
| title_sort | modelling and simulation of distributed uav swarm cooperative planning and perception |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9977262 |
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