The application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in indoor environment is emerging nowadays due to the advancements in technology. UAV brings more space flexibility in an occupied or hardly accessible indoor environment, e.g. shop floor of manufacturing industry, greenhouse, and nuclear powerplant. UAV helps in creating an autonomous manufacturing system by executing tasks with less human intervention in a time-efficient manner. Consequently, a scheduler is an essential component to be focused on; yet the number of reported studies on UAV scheduling has been minimal. This work proposes a mathematical model of the problem and a heuristic-based methodology to solve it. To suit near real-time operations, a quick response towards uncertain events and a quick creation of new high-quality feasible schedule are needed. Hence, the proposed heuristic is incorporated with particle swarm optimization algorithm to find a near optimal schedule in a short computation time. This proposed methodology is implemented into a scheduler and tested on a few scales of datasets generated based on real flight demonstrations. Performance evaluation of scheduler is discussed in detail, and the best solution obtained from a selected set of parameters is reported.
Task scheduling system for UAV operations in indoor environment
2019-01-01
Khosiawan , Y , Park , Y S , Moon , I , Janardhanan , M N & Nielsen , I E 2019 , ' Task scheduling system for UAV operations in indoor environment ' , Neural Computing and Applications , vol. 31 , pp. 5431-5459 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3373-9
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC: | 629 |
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