Cooperative Search and Rescue with Drone SwarmShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024, p. 381-393Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, also known as drone swarms, have been a subject of extensive research due to their potential to enhance monitoring, surveillance, and search missions. Coordinating several drones flying simultaneously presents a challenge in increasing their level of automation and intelligence to improve strategic organization. To address this challenge, we propose a solution that uses hill climbing, potential fields, and search strategies in conjunction with a probability map to coordinate a UAV swarm. The UAVs are autonomous and equipped with distributed intelligence to facilitate a cooperative search application. Our results show the effectiveness of the swarm, indicating that this approach is a promising approach to addressing this problem.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024. p. 381-393
Keywords [en]
Cooperative, Drones, Search and rescue, Swarm, UAV, Antennas, Aerial vehicle, Cooperative search, Levels of automation, Search missions, Strategic organizations, Surveillance missions, Unmanned aerial vehicle
National Category
Robotics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-65361DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39619-9_28Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85181981333ISBN: 9783031396182 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-65361DiVA, id: diva2:1828601
Conference
7th International Congress and Workshop on Industrial AI and eMaintenance, IAI 2023, Luleå, Sweden, 13 June 2023 through 15 June 2023
2024-01-172024-01-172024-01-17Bibliographically approved