Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated tremendous capability in recent military operations. Recently swarm technology has been suggested as a possible solution to automatically control and coordinate multiple UAVs. The idea behind a swarm is that simple local rules that govern the behavior of individual entities can lead to complex emergent behavior of the system as a whole. Although such systems have achieved limited success in simulated applications, finding good rules can be difficult for humans. Moreover, such rules can result in odd behavior or unnecessarily long missions. This paper describes a swarm-based multi-UAV system, called SmartSwarms, using a radically different approach: instead of operating with human-defined rules, each individual reasons using Simulated LookAhead (SLA), thus incorporating a model of its world and nearby entities in decision-making. Our results show that this approach can improve swarm behavior in UAVs. SLA is affordable, scalable to a large number of UAVs, deconflicts in real-time, learns over time, is interoperable, reusable, fault tolerant, and error tolerant, and can handle uncertainty.


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    Title :

    SmartSwarms: Distributed UAVs that Think


    Contributors:
    A. Prieditis (author) / M. Dalal (author) / A. Arcilla (author) / B. Groel (author) / M. Van Der Bock (author)

    Publication date :

    2004


    Size :

    23 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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