This program addressed the coordinated control of clusters and swarms of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs). UAVs have been identified as key elements in future military systems. In particular, they offer the ability to perform tasks that cannot be achieved with aircraft directly piloted b> human beings (due to size and maneuverability constraints). In addition, if they can be constructed for a low enough cost, they can be treated as expendable assets, greatly increasing their tactical potential. One scenario for the deployment of UAVs is in clusters and swarms. Such a deployment will increase their effectiveness through cooperation of distributed resources, robustness to individual vehicle failure and neutralization, and by performing tasks that only spatially distributed vehicles can achieve. Our main objective was a comprehensive program aimed at developing the tools and techniques required for the effective deployment of UAV swarms. We brought to bear the most promising results in the area of multi-vehicle control - here at Cornell, at other institutions, and at government labs - and applied them to two bench-mark experiments, the control of a large number of UAVs that implement a dynamic, phased array antenna, and the coordinated control of a large number of ground vehicles.


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    Title :

    Control of Air Vehicle Swarms


    Contributors:
    R. D'Andrea (author)

    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    9 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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