Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming vital warfare platforms because they significantly reduce the risk of human life while accomplishing important missions. A UAV can be used for example, as stand-in sensor for the detection of mobile, low-probability-of-intercept battlefield surveillance and fire control emitters. With many UAVs acting together as a swarm, the location and frequency characteristics of each emitter can be accurately determined to continuously provide complete battlefield awareness. The swarm should be able to act autonomously while searching for targets and relaying the information to all swarm members. In this thesis, two methods of autonomous control of a UAV swarm were investigated. The first method investigated was the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. This technique uses a non-linear approach to minimize the error between the location of each particle and the target by accelerating particles through the search space until the target is found. When applied to a swarm of UAVs, the PSO algorithm did not produce the desired performance results. The second method used a linear algorithm to determine the correct heading and maneuver the swarm toward the target at a constant velocity. This thesis shows that the second approach is more practical to a UAV swarm. New results are shown to demonstrate the application of the algorithm to the swarm movement.


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    Title :

    Swarm Intelligence for Autonomous UAV Control


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    Publication date :

    2005


    Size :

    131 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


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    No indication


    Language :

    English




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