Multiple Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (multi-UAVs) coordinated trajectory replanning is one of the most complicated global optimum problems in multi-UAVs coordinated control. Based on the construction of the basic mode...Multiple Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (multi-UAVs) coordinated trajectory replanning is one of the most complicated global optimum problems in multi-UAVs coordinated control. Based on the construction of the basic model of multi-UAVs coordinated trajectory replanning, which includes problem description, threat modeling, constraint conditions, coordinated function and coordination mechanism, a novel Max-Min adaptive Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) approach is presented in detail. In view of the characteristics of multi-UAVs coordinated trajectory replanning in dynamic and uncertain environments, the minimum and maximum pheromone trails in ACO are set to enhance the searching capability, and the point pheromone is adopted to achieve the collision avoidance between UAVs at the trajectory planner layer. Considering the simultaneous arrival and the air-space collision avoidance, an Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) is decided first. Then the trajectory and flight velocity of each UAV are determined. Simulation experiments are performed under the complicated combating environment containing some static threats and popup threats. The results demonstrate the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed approach.展开更多
Effective information fusion is very important in hybrid source localization. In this paper, the performance analysis of conventional joint direction of arrival(DOA) and time difference of arrival(TDOA) system is deri...Effective information fusion is very important in hybrid source localization. In this paper, the performance analysis of conventional joint direction of arrival(DOA) and time difference of arrival(TDOA) system is derived and it is shown that this hybrid system may inferior to the single system when the ratio of angular measurements error to distance measurements error exceeds a threshold. To avoid this problem, an effective DOA/TDOA adaptive cascaded(DTAC) technique is presented. The rotation feature of UAVs and spatial filtering technique are applied to gain the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR), which leads to more accurate estimation of time delay by using DOAs. Nevertheless, the time delay estimation precision is still limited by the sampling frequency, which is constrained by the finite load of UAV. To break through the limitation, an enhanced self-delay-compensation(SDC) method is proposed, which aims at detecting the overlooked time delay within the sampling interval by adding a tiny time delay. Finally, the position of the source is estimated by the Chan algorithm. Compared to DOA-only algorithm, TDOA-only algorithm and joint DOA/TDOA(JDT) algorithm, the proposed method shows better localization accuracy regardless of different SNRs and sampling frequencies. Numerical simulations are presented to validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
This paper studies the countermeasure design problems of distributed resilient time-varying formation-tracking control for multi-UAV systems with single-way communications against composite attacks,including denial-of...This paper studies the countermeasure design problems of distributed resilient time-varying formation-tracking control for multi-UAV systems with single-way communications against composite attacks,including denial-of-services(DoS)attacks,false-data injection attacks,camouflage attacks,and actuation attacks(AAs).Inspired by the concept of digital twin,a new two-layered protocol equipped with a safe and private twin layer(TL)is proposed,which decouples the above problems into the defense scheme against DoS attacks on the TL and the defense scheme against AAs on the cyber-physical layer.First,a topologyrepairing strategy against frequency-constrained DoS attacks is implemented via a Zeno-free event-triggered estimation scheme,which saves communication resources considerably.The upper bound of the reaction time needed to launch the repaired topology after the occurrence of DoS attacks is calculated.Second,a decentralized adaptive and chattering-relief controller against potentially unbounded AAs is designed.Moreover,this novel adaptive controller can achieve uniformly ultimately bounded convergence,whose error bound can be given explicitly.The practicability and validity of this new two-layered protocol are shown via a simulation example and a UAV swarm experiment equipped with both Ultra-WideBand and WiFi communication channels.展开更多
Abstract: There is a high demand for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight stability when using vi- sion as a detection method for navigation control. To meet such demand, a new path planning meth- od for controllin...Abstract: There is a high demand for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight stability when using vi- sion as a detection method for navigation control. To meet such demand, a new path planning meth- od for controlling multi-UAVs is studied to reach multi-waypoints simultaneously under the view of visual navigation technology. A model based on the stable-shortest pythagorean-hodograph (PH) curve is established, which could not only satisfy the demands of visual navigation and control law, but also be easy to compute. Based on the model, a planning algorithm to guide multi-UAVs to reach multi-waypoints at the same time without collisions is developed. The simulation results show that the paths have shorter distance and smaller curvature than traditional methods, which could help to avoid collisions.展开更多
This paper investigates subcarrier and power allocation in a multi-UAV OFDM system.The study considers a practical scenario,where certain subcarriers are unavailable for dynamic subcarrier allocation,on account of pre...This paper investigates subcarrier and power allocation in a multi-UAV OFDM system.The study considers a practical scenario,where certain subcarriers are unavailable for dynamic subcarrier allocation,on account of pre-allocation for burst transmissions.We first propose a novel iterative algorithm to jointly optimize subcarrier and power allocation,so as to maximize the sum rate of the uplink transmission in the multiUAV OFDM system.The key idea behind our solution is converting the nontrivial allocation problem into a weighted mean square error(MSE) problem.By this means,the allocation problem can be solved by the alternating optimization method.Besides,aiming at a lower-complexity solution,we propose a heuristic allocation scheme,where subcarrier allocation and transmit power allocation are separately optimized.In the heuristic scheme,closedform solution can be obtained for power allocation.Simulation results demonstrate that in the presence of stretched subcarrier resource,the proposed iterative joint optimization algorithm can significantly outperform the heuristic scheme,offering a higher sum rate.展开更多
Introducing multi-UAV network with flexible deployment into mobile edge computing(MEC)can effectively improve the quality of service of Internet-of-Things services,reduce the coverage cost and resource waste rate of e...Introducing multi-UAV network with flexible deployment into mobile edge computing(MEC)can effectively improve the quality of service of Internet-of-Things services,reduce the coverage cost and resource waste rate of edge nodes,and also bring some challenges.This paper first introduces the current situation and pain points of mobile edge computing,then analyzes the significance and value of using multi-UAV network to assist mobile edge computing,and summarizes its key technologies and typical applications.In the end,some open research problems and technology prospects of multi-UAV network assisted intelligent edge computing are put forward,which provide new ideas for the future development of this field.展开更多
This article establishes a three-tier mobile edge computing(MEC) network, which takes into account the cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs). In this MEC network, we aim to minimize the processing delay o...This article establishes a three-tier mobile edge computing(MEC) network, which takes into account the cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs). In this MEC network, we aim to minimize the processing delay of tasks by jointly optimizing the deployment of UAVs and offloading decisions,while meeting the computing capacity constraint of UAVs. However, the resulting optimization problem is nonconvex, which cannot be solved by general optimization tools in an effective and efficient way. To this end, we propose a two-layer optimization algorithm to tackle the non-convexity of the problem by capitalizing on alternating optimization. In the upper level algorithm, we rely on differential evolution(DE) learning algorithm to solve the deployment of the UAVs. In the lower level algorithm, we exploit distributed deep neural network(DDNN) to generate offloading decisions. Numerical results demonstrate that the two-layer optimization algorithm can effectively obtain the near-optimal deployment of UAVs and offloading strategy with low complexity.展开更多
At present, the studies on multi-team antagonistic games(MTAGs) are still in the early stage, because this complicated problem involves not only incompleteness of information and conflict of interests, but also select...At present, the studies on multi-team antagonistic games(MTAGs) are still in the early stage, because this complicated problem involves not only incompleteness of information and conflict of interests, but also selection of antagonistic targets.Therefore, based on the previous researches, a new framework is proposed in this paper, which is dynamic multi-team antagonistic games with incomplete information(DMTAGII) model.For this model, the corresponding concept of perfect Bayesian Nash equilibrium(PBNE) is established and the existence of PBNE is also proved. Besides, an interactive iteration algorithm is introduced according to the idea of the best response for solving the equilibrium. Then, the scenario of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) against multiple military targets is studied to solve the problems of tactical decision making based on the DMTAGII model. In the process of modeling, the specific expressions of strategy, status and payoff functions of the games are considered, and the strategy is coded to match the structure of genetic algorithm so that the PBNE can be solved by combining the genetic algorithm and the interactive iteration algorithm.Finally, through the simulation the feasibility and effectiveness of the DMTAGII model are verified. Meanwhile, the calculated equilibrium strategies are also found to be realistic, which can provide certain references for improving the autonomous ability of UAV systems.展开更多
This paper studies a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)enabled wireless communication system,where multiple UAVs are employed to communicate with a group of ground terminals(GTs)in the presence of potential jammers.We...This paper studies a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)enabled wireless communication system,where multiple UAVs are employed to communicate with a group of ground terminals(GTs)in the presence of potential jammers.We aim to maximize the throughput overall GTs by jointly optimizing the UAVs’trajectory,the GTs’scheduling and power allocation.Unlike most prior studies,we consider the UAVs’turning and climbing angle constraints,the UAVs’three-dimensional(3D)trajectory constraints,minimum UAV-to-UAV(U2U)distance constraint,and the GTs’transmit power requirements.However,the formulated problem is a mixed-integer non-convex problem and is intractable to work it out with conventional optimization methods.To tackle this difficulty,we propose an efficient robust iterative algorithm to decompose the original problem be three sub-problems and acquire the suboptimal solution via utilizing the block coordinate descent(BCD)method,successive convex approximation(SCA)technique,and S-procedure.Extensive simulation results show that our proposed robust iterative algorithm offers a substantial gain in the system performance compared with the benchmark algorithms.展开更多
In recent years,with the rapid development of the drone industry,drones have been widely used in many fields such as aerial photography,plant protection,performance,and monitoring.To effectively control the unauthoriz...In recent years,with the rapid development of the drone industry,drones have been widely used in many fields such as aerial photography,plant protection,performance,and monitoring.To effectively control the unauthorized flight of drones,using GPS spoofing attacks to interfere with the flight of drones is a relatively simple and highly feasible attack method.However,the current method uses ground equipment to carry out spoofing attacks.The attack range is limited and the flexibility is not high.Based on the existing methods,this paper proposes a multi-UAV coordinated GPS spoofing scheme based on YOLO Nano,which can launch effective attacks against target drones with autonomous movement:First,a single-attack drone based on YOLO Nano is proposed.The target tracking scheme achieves accurate tracking of the target direction on a single-attack drone;then,based on the single-UAV target tracking,a multi-attack drone coordinated target tracking scheme based on the weighted least squares method is proposed to realize the target drone Finally,a new calculation method for false GPS signals is proposed,which adaptively adjusts the flight trajectory of the attacking drone and the content of the false GPS signal according to the autonomous movement of the target drone.展开更多
This paper proposes new methods and strategies for Multi-UAVs cooperative attacks with safety and time constraints in a complex environment.Delaunay triangle is designed to construct a map of the complex flight enviro...This paper proposes new methods and strategies for Multi-UAVs cooperative attacks with safety and time constraints in a complex environment.Delaunay triangle is designed to construct a map of the complex flight environment for aerial vehicles.Delaunay-Map,Safe Flight Corridor(SFC),and Relative Safe Flight Corridor(RSFC)are applied to ensure each UAV flight trajectory's safety.By using such techniques,it is possible to avoid the collision with obstacles and collision between UAVs.Bezier-curve is further developed to ensure that multi-UAVs can simultaneously reach the target at the specified time,and the trajectory is within the flight corridor.The trajectory tracking controller is also designed based on model predictive control to track the planned trajectory accurately.The simulation and experiment results are presented to verifying developed strategies of Multi-UAV cooperative attacks.展开更多
Many extensive UAV communication networks have used UAV cooperative control.Wireless networking services can be offered using unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)as aerial base stations.Not only is coverage maximization,but...Many extensive UAV communication networks have used UAV cooperative control.Wireless networking services can be offered using unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)as aerial base stations.Not only is coverage maximization,but also better connectivity,a fundamental design challenge that must be solved.The number of applications for unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)operating in unlicensed bands is fast expanding as the Internet of Things(IoT)develops.Those bands,however,have become overcrowded as the number of systems that use them grows.Cognitive Radio(CR)and spectrum allocation approaches have emerged as a potential approach for resolving spectrum scarcity in wireless networks,and hence as technological solutions for future generations,from this perspective.As a result,combining CR with UAVs has the potential to give significant benefits for large-scale UAV deployment.The paper examines existing research on the subject of UAV covering and proposes a multi-UAV cognitive-based error-free model for energy-efficient communication.Coverage maximization,power control,and enhanced connection quality are the three steps of the proposed model.To satisfy the desired signal-to-noise ratio,the covering zone efficacy is investigated as a function of the distance among UAVs stationed in a specific geographic region depending on multiple deployment configurations like as rural,suburban,and urban macro deployment scenarios of the ITU-R M.2135 standard(SNR).展开更多
In this paper,multi-UAV trajectory planning and resource allocation are jointly investigated to improve the information freshness for vehicular networks,where the vehicles collect time-critical traffic information by ...In this paper,multi-UAV trajectory planning and resource allocation are jointly investigated to improve the information freshness for vehicular networks,where the vehicles collect time-critical traffic information by on-board sensors and upload to the UAVs through their allocated spectrum resource.We adopt the expected sum age of information(ESAoI)to measure the network-wide information freshness.ESAoI is jointly affected by both the UAVs trajectory and the resource allocation,which are coupled with each other and make the analysis of ESAoI challenging.To tackle this challenge,we introduce a joint trajectory planning and resource allocation procedure,where the UAVs firstly fly to their destinations and then hover to allocate resource blocks(RBs)during a time-slot.Based on this procedure,we formulate a trajectory planning and resource allocation problem for ESAoI minimization.To solve the mixed integer nonlinear programming(MINLP)problem with hybrid decision variables,we propose a TD3 trajectory planning and Round-robin resource allocation(TTPRRA).Specifically,we exploit the exploration and learning ability of the twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm(TD3)for UAVs trajectory planning,and utilize Round Robin rule for the optimal resource allocation.With TTP-RRA,the UAVs obtain their flight velocities by sensing the locations and the age of information(AoI)of the vehicles,then allocate the RBs to the vehicles in a descending order of AoI until the remaining RBs are not sufficient to support another successful uploading.Simulation results demonstrate that TTP-RRA outperforms the baseline approaches in terms of ESAoI and average AoI(AAoI).展开更多
There are many interesting flocking phenomena in nature,such as joint predation and group migration,and the intrinsic communication patterns of flocking are essential for studying group behavior.Traditional models of ...There are many interesting flocking phenomena in nature,such as joint predation and group migration,and the intrinsic communication patterns of flocking are essential for studying group behavior.Traditional models of communication such as the pigeon flock model and the wolf pack model define all agents within a perceptual distance as the neighborhoods,and some models have fixed communicating numbers.There is a significant impact on the quality of the flocking formation when encountering poor initial state of the flocking,multiple obstacles,or loss of certain agents.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a local communication model with nearest agents in four directions.Based on this model and behavioral method,two distributed flocking formation algorithms are designed in this paper for different scenarios,namely the flocking algorithm and the circular formation algorithm.Numerical simulation results show that the flocking can pass through the obstacle area and re-formation smoothly,and also the formation quality of the flocking is better compared with the traditional communication model.展开更多
Formation keeping is important for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(multi-UAV)to fully play their roles in cooperative combats and improve their mission success rate.However,in practical applications,it is difficult ...Formation keeping is important for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(multi-UAV)to fully play their roles in cooperative combats and improve their mission success rate.However,in practical applications,it is difficult to achieve formation keeping precisely and obstacle avoidance autonomously at the same time.This paper proposes a joint control method based on robust H∞ controller and improved Artificial Potential Field(APF)method.Firstly,we build a formation flight model based on the “Leader-Follower”structure and design a robust H∞ controller with three channels X,Y and Z to eliminate dynamic uncertainties,so as to realize high-precision formation keeping.Secondly,to fulfill obstacle avoidance efficiently in complex situations where UAVs fly at high speed with high inertia,this paper comes up with the improved APF method with deformation factor considered.The judgment criterion is proposed and applied to ensure flight safety.In the end,the simulation results show that the designed controller is effective with the formation keeping a high accuracy and in the meantime,it enables UAVs to avoid obstacles autonomously and recover the formation rapidly when coming close to obstacles.Therefore,the method proposed here boasts good engineering application prospect.展开更多
Effective task assignment decisions are paramount for ensuring reliable task execution in multi-UAV systems.However,in the development of feasible plans,challenges stemming from extensive and prolonged task requiremen...Effective task assignment decisions are paramount for ensuring reliable task execution in multi-UAV systems.However,in the development of feasible plans,challenges stemming from extensive and prolonged task requirements are encountered.This paper establishes a decision-making framework for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(multi-UAV)based on the well-known pigeon-inspired optimization(PIO)algorithm.By addressing the problem from a hierarchical structural perspective,the initial stage involves minimizing the global objective of the flight distance cost after obtaining the entire task distribution and task requirements,utilizing the global optimization capability of the classical PIO algorithm to allocate feasible task spaces for each UAV.In the second stage,building upon the decisions made in the preceding stage,each UAV is abstracted as an agent maximizing its own task execution benefits.An improved version of the PIO algorithm modified with a sine-cosine search mechanism is proposed,enabling the acquisition of the optimal task execution sequence.Simulation experiments involving two different scales of UAVs validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.Moreover,dynamic events such as UAV damage and task changes are considered in the simulation to validate the efficacy of the two-stage framework.展开更多
With the rapid development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)technology,one of the emerging fields is to utilize multi-UAV as a team under autonomous control in a complex environment.Among the challenges in fully achievi...With the rapid development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)technology,one of the emerging fields is to utilize multi-UAV as a team under autonomous control in a complex environment.Among the challenges in fully achieving autonomous control,Cooperative task assignment stands out as the key function.In this paper,we analyze the importance and difficulties of multiUAV cooperative task assignment in characterizing scenarios and obtaining high-quality solutions.Furthermore,we present three promising directions for future research:Cooperative task assignment in a dynamic complex environment,in an unmanned-manned aircraft system and in a UAV swarm.Our goal is to provide a brief review of multi-UAV cooperative task assignment for readers to further explore.展开更多
The paper proposes a new swarm intelligence-based distributed Model Predictive Control(MPC)approach for coordination control of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs).First,a distributed MPC framework is designed and...The paper proposes a new swarm intelligence-based distributed Model Predictive Control(MPC)approach for coordination control of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs).First,a distributed MPC framework is designed and each member only shares the information with neighbors.The Chaotic Grey Wolf Optimization(CGWO)method is developed on the basis of chaotic initialization and chaotic search to solve the local Finite Horizon Optimal Control Problem(FHOCP).Then,the distributed cost function is designed and integrated into each FHOCP to achieve multi-UAV formation control and trajectory tracking with no-fly zone constraint.Further,an event-triggered strategy is proposed to reduce the computational burden for the distributed MPC approach,which considers the predicted state errors and the convergence of cost function.Simulation results show that the CGWO-based distributed MPC approach is more computationally efficient to achieve multi-UAV coordination control than traditional method.展开更多
In this paper,we present a distributed framework for the lidar-based relative state estimator which achieves highly accurate,real-time trajectory estimation of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)in GPS-denied envi...In this paper,we present a distributed framework for the lidar-based relative state estimator which achieves highly accurate,real-time trajectory estimation of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)in GPS-denied environments.The system builds atop a factor graph,and only on-board sensors and computing power are utilized.Benefiting from the keyframe strategy,each UAV performs relative state estimation individually and broadcasts very partial information without exchanging raw data.The complete system runs in real-time and is evaluated with three experiments in different environments.Experimental results show that the proposed distributed approach offers comparable performance with a centralized method in terms of accuracy and real-time performance.The flight test demonstrates that the proposed relative state estimation framework is able to be used for aggressive flights over 5 m/s.展开更多
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no.60604009)Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (Grant no.2006ZC51039,Beijing NOVA Program Foundation of China (Grant no.2007A017)+1 种基金Open Fund of the Provincial Key Laboratory for Information Processing Technology,Suzhou University (Grant no KJS0821)"New Scientific Star in Blue Sky"Talent Program of Beihang University of China
文摘Multiple Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (multi-UAVs) coordinated trajectory replanning is one of the most complicated global optimum problems in multi-UAVs coordinated control. Based on the construction of the basic model of multi-UAVs coordinated trajectory replanning, which includes problem description, threat modeling, constraint conditions, coordinated function and coordination mechanism, a novel Max-Min adaptive Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) approach is presented in detail. In view of the characteristics of multi-UAVs coordinated trajectory replanning in dynamic and uncertain environments, the minimum and maximum pheromone trails in ACO are set to enhance the searching capability, and the point pheromone is adopted to achieve the collision avoidance between UAVs at the trajectory planner layer. Considering the simultaneous arrival and the air-space collision avoidance, an Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) is decided first. Then the trajectory and flight velocity of each UAV are determined. Simulation experiments are performed under the complicated combating environment containing some static threats and popup threats. The results demonstrate the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
基金co-supported by China Scholarship Council(201806830081)National science foundation of China(61827801,61371169,61601167,61601504)+3 种基金Jiangsu NSF(BK20161489)the open research fund of State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves,Southeast University(No.K201826)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(NO.NE2017103and NT2019013)the postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(KYCX18_0293).
文摘Effective information fusion is very important in hybrid source localization. In this paper, the performance analysis of conventional joint direction of arrival(DOA) and time difference of arrival(TDOA) system is derived and it is shown that this hybrid system may inferior to the single system when the ratio of angular measurements error to distance measurements error exceeds a threshold. To avoid this problem, an effective DOA/TDOA adaptive cascaded(DTAC) technique is presented. The rotation feature of UAVs and spatial filtering technique are applied to gain the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR), which leads to more accurate estimation of time delay by using DOAs. Nevertheless, the time delay estimation precision is still limited by the sampling frequency, which is constrained by the finite load of UAV. To break through the limitation, an enhanced self-delay-compensation(SDC) method is proposed, which aims at detecting the overlooked time delay within the sampling interval by adding a tiny time delay. Finally, the position of the source is estimated by the Chan algorithm. Compared to DOA-only algorithm, TDOA-only algorithm and joint DOA/TDOA(JDT) algorithm, the proposed method shows better localization accuracy regardless of different SNRs and sampling frequencies. Numerical simulations are presented to validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61903258)Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2022A1515010234)+1 种基金the Project of Department of Education of Guangdong Province(2022KTSCX105)Qatar National Research Fund(NPRP12C-0814-190012).
文摘This paper studies the countermeasure design problems of distributed resilient time-varying formation-tracking control for multi-UAV systems with single-way communications against composite attacks,including denial-of-services(DoS)attacks,false-data injection attacks,camouflage attacks,and actuation attacks(AAs).Inspired by the concept of digital twin,a new two-layered protocol equipped with a safe and private twin layer(TL)is proposed,which decouples the above problems into the defense scheme against DoS attacks on the TL and the defense scheme against AAs on the cyber-physical layer.First,a topologyrepairing strategy against frequency-constrained DoS attacks is implemented via a Zeno-free event-triggered estimation scheme,which saves communication resources considerably.The upper bound of the reaction time needed to launch the repaired topology after the occurrence of DoS attacks is calculated.Second,a decentralized adaptive and chattering-relief controller against potentially unbounded AAs is designed.Moreover,this novel adaptive controller can achieve uniformly ultimately bounded convergence,whose error bound can be given explicitly.The practicability and validity of this new two-layered protocol are shown via a simulation example and a UAV swarm experiment equipped with both Ultra-WideBand and WiFi communication channels.
文摘Abstract: There is a high demand for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight stability when using vi- sion as a detection method for navigation control. To meet such demand, a new path planning meth- od for controlling multi-UAVs is studied to reach multi-waypoints simultaneously under the view of visual navigation technology. A model based on the stable-shortest pythagorean-hodograph (PH) curve is established, which could not only satisfy the demands of visual navigation and control law, but also be easy to compute. Based on the model, a planning algorithm to guide multi-UAVs to reach multi-waypoints at the same time without collisions is developed. The simulation results show that the paths have shorter distance and smaller curvature than traditional methods, which could help to avoid collisions.
基金supported by China NSF Grants(61631020)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(NP2018103,NE2017103,NC2017003)
文摘This paper investigates subcarrier and power allocation in a multi-UAV OFDM system.The study considers a practical scenario,where certain subcarriers are unavailable for dynamic subcarrier allocation,on account of pre-allocation for burst transmissions.We first propose a novel iterative algorithm to jointly optimize subcarrier and power allocation,so as to maximize the sum rate of the uplink transmission in the multiUAV OFDM system.The key idea behind our solution is converting the nontrivial allocation problem into a weighted mean square error(MSE) problem.By this means,the allocation problem can be solved by the alternating optimization method.Besides,aiming at a lower-complexity solution,we propose a heuristic allocation scheme,where subcarrier allocation and transmit power allocation are separately optimized.In the heuristic scheme,closedform solution can be obtained for power allocation.Simulation results demonstrate that in the presence of stretched subcarrier resource,the proposed iterative joint optimization algorithm can significantly outperform the heuristic scheme,offering a higher sum rate.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)with Grant 61720106001。
文摘Introducing multi-UAV network with flexible deployment into mobile edge computing(MEC)can effectively improve the quality of service of Internet-of-Things services,reduce the coverage cost and resource waste rate of edge nodes,and also bring some challenges.This paper first introduces the current situation and pain points of mobile edge computing,then analyzes the significance and value of using multi-UAV network to assist mobile edge computing,and summarizes its key technologies and typical applications.In the end,some open research problems and technology prospects of multi-UAV network assisted intelligent edge computing are put forward,which provide new ideas for the future development of this field.
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62101277)in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20200822)+1 种基金in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (Grant No. 20KJB510036)in part by the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology (Grant No. KLF-2020-03)。
文摘This article establishes a three-tier mobile edge computing(MEC) network, which takes into account the cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs). In this MEC network, we aim to minimize the processing delay of tasks by jointly optimizing the deployment of UAVs and offloading decisions,while meeting the computing capacity constraint of UAVs. However, the resulting optimization problem is nonconvex, which cannot be solved by general optimization tools in an effective and efficient way. To this end, we propose a two-layer optimization algorithm to tackle the non-convexity of the problem by capitalizing on alternating optimization. In the upper level algorithm, we rely on differential evolution(DE) learning algorithm to solve the deployment of the UAVs. In the lower level algorithm, we exploit distributed deep neural network(DDNN) to generate offloading decisions. Numerical results demonstrate that the two-layer optimization algorithm can effectively obtain the near-optimal deployment of UAVs and offloading strategy with low complexity.
基金supported by Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(61321002)National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(60925011)+2 种基金Projects of Major International(Regional)Joint Research Program NSFC(61120106010)Beijing Education Committee Cooperation Building Foundation Project,Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University(IRT1208)Chang Jiang Scholars Program and National Natural Science Foundation of China(61203078)
文摘At present, the studies on multi-team antagonistic games(MTAGs) are still in the early stage, because this complicated problem involves not only incompleteness of information and conflict of interests, but also selection of antagonistic targets.Therefore, based on the previous researches, a new framework is proposed in this paper, which is dynamic multi-team antagonistic games with incomplete information(DMTAGII) model.For this model, the corresponding concept of perfect Bayesian Nash equilibrium(PBNE) is established and the existence of PBNE is also proved. Besides, an interactive iteration algorithm is introduced according to the idea of the best response for solving the equilibrium. Then, the scenario of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) against multiple military targets is studied to solve the problems of tactical decision making based on the DMTAGII model. In the process of modeling, the specific expressions of strategy, status and payoff functions of the games are considered, and the strategy is coded to match the structure of genetic algorithm so that the PBNE can be solved by combining the genetic algorithm and the interactive iteration algorithm.Finally, through the simulation the feasibility and effectiveness of the DMTAGII model are verified. Meanwhile, the calculated equilibrium strategies are also found to be realistic, which can provide certain references for improving the autonomous ability of UAV systems.
文摘This paper studies a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)enabled wireless communication system,where multiple UAVs are employed to communicate with a group of ground terminals(GTs)in the presence of potential jammers.We aim to maximize the throughput overall GTs by jointly optimizing the UAVs’trajectory,the GTs’scheduling and power allocation.Unlike most prior studies,we consider the UAVs’turning and climbing angle constraints,the UAVs’three-dimensional(3D)trajectory constraints,minimum UAV-to-UAV(U2U)distance constraint,and the GTs’transmit power requirements.However,the formulated problem is a mixed-integer non-convex problem and is intractable to work it out with conventional optimization methods.To tackle this difficulty,we propose an efficient robust iterative algorithm to decompose the original problem be three sub-problems and acquire the suboptimal solution via utilizing the block coordinate descent(BCD)method,successive convex approximation(SCA)technique,and S-procedure.Extensive simulation results show that our proposed robust iterative algorithm offers a substantial gain in the system performance compared with the benchmark algorithms.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants U1836110,U1836208by the Jiangsu Basic Research Programs-Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.BK20200039。
文摘In recent years,with the rapid development of the drone industry,drones have been widely used in many fields such as aerial photography,plant protection,performance,and monitoring.To effectively control the unauthorized flight of drones,using GPS spoofing attacks to interfere with the flight of drones is a relatively simple and highly feasible attack method.However,the current method uses ground equipment to carry out spoofing attacks.The attack range is limited and the flexibility is not high.Based on the existing methods,this paper proposes a multi-UAV coordinated GPS spoofing scheme based on YOLO Nano,which can launch effective attacks against target drones with autonomous movement:First,a single-attack drone based on YOLO Nano is proposed.The target tracking scheme achieves accurate tracking of the target direction on a single-attack drone;then,based on the single-UAV target tracking,a multi-attack drone coordinated target tracking scheme based on the weighted least squares method is proposed to realize the target drone Finally,a new calculation method for false GPS signals is proposed,which adaptively adjusts the flight trajectory of the attacking drone and the content of the false GPS signal according to the autonomous movement of the target drone.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61903350)Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars。
文摘This paper proposes new methods and strategies for Multi-UAVs cooperative attacks with safety and time constraints in a complex environment.Delaunay triangle is designed to construct a map of the complex flight environment for aerial vehicles.Delaunay-Map,Safe Flight Corridor(SFC),and Relative Safe Flight Corridor(RSFC)are applied to ensure each UAV flight trajectory's safety.By using such techniques,it is possible to avoid the collision with obstacles and collision between UAVs.Bezier-curve is further developed to ensure that multi-UAVs can simultaneously reach the target at the specified time,and the trajectory is within the flight corridor.The trajectory tracking controller is also designed based on model predictive control to track the planned trajectory accurately.The simulation and experiment results are presented to verifying developed strategies of Multi-UAV cooperative attacks.
基金Ahmed Alhussen would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research at Majmaah University for supporting this work under Project No.R-2022-193.
文摘Many extensive UAV communication networks have used UAV cooperative control.Wireless networking services can be offered using unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)as aerial base stations.Not only is coverage maximization,but also better connectivity,a fundamental design challenge that must be solved.The number of applications for unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)operating in unlicensed bands is fast expanding as the Internet of Things(IoT)develops.Those bands,however,have become overcrowded as the number of systems that use them grows.Cognitive Radio(CR)and spectrum allocation approaches have emerged as a potential approach for resolving spectrum scarcity in wireless networks,and hence as technological solutions for future generations,from this perspective.As a result,combining CR with UAVs has the potential to give significant benefits for large-scale UAV deployment.The paper examines existing research on the subject of UAV covering and proposes a multi-UAV cognitive-based error-free model for energy-efficient communication.Coverage maximization,power control,and enhanced connection quality are the three steps of the proposed model.To satisfy the desired signal-to-noise ratio,the covering zone efficacy is investigated as a function of the distance among UAVs stationed in a specific geographic region depending on multiple deployment configurations like as rural,suburban,and urban macro deployment scenarios of the ITU-R M.2135 standard(SNR).
基金supported in part by the Project of International Cooperation and Exchanges NSFC under Grant No.61860206005in part by the Joint Funds of the NSFC under Grant No.U22A2003.
文摘In this paper,multi-UAV trajectory planning and resource allocation are jointly investigated to improve the information freshness for vehicular networks,where the vehicles collect time-critical traffic information by on-board sensors and upload to the UAVs through their allocated spectrum resource.We adopt the expected sum age of information(ESAoI)to measure the network-wide information freshness.ESAoI is jointly affected by both the UAVs trajectory and the resource allocation,which are coupled with each other and make the analysis of ESAoI challenging.To tackle this challenge,we introduce a joint trajectory planning and resource allocation procedure,where the UAVs firstly fly to their destinations and then hover to allocate resource blocks(RBs)during a time-slot.Based on this procedure,we formulate a trajectory planning and resource allocation problem for ESAoI minimization.To solve the mixed integer nonlinear programming(MINLP)problem with hybrid decision variables,we propose a TD3 trajectory planning and Round-robin resource allocation(TTPRRA).Specifically,we exploit the exploration and learning ability of the twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm(TD3)for UAVs trajectory planning,and utilize Round Robin rule for the optimal resource allocation.With TTP-RRA,the UAVs obtain their flight velocities by sensing the locations and the age of information(AoI)of the vehicles,then allocate the RBs to the vehicles in a descending order of AoI until the remaining RBs are not sufficient to support another successful uploading.Simulation results demonstrate that TTP-RRA outperforms the baseline approaches in terms of ESAoI and average AoI(AAoI).
基金Jilin Province Development and Reform Commission under Grant[2020C018-2]Jilin Province Key R&D Plan Project under Grant[20200401113GX].
文摘There are many interesting flocking phenomena in nature,such as joint predation and group migration,and the intrinsic communication patterns of flocking are essential for studying group behavior.Traditional models of communication such as the pigeon flock model and the wolf pack model define all agents within a perceptual distance as the neighborhoods,and some models have fixed communicating numbers.There is a significant impact on the quality of the flocking formation when encountering poor initial state of the flocking,multiple obstacles,or loss of certain agents.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a local communication model with nearest agents in four directions.Based on this model and behavioral method,two distributed flocking formation algorithms are designed in this paper for different scenarios,namely the flocking algorithm and the circular formation algorithm.Numerical simulation results show that the flocking can pass through the obstacle area and re-formation smoothly,and also the formation quality of the flocking is better compared with the traditional communication model.
基金supported by Funding from the National Key Laboratory of Rotorcraft Aeromechanics,China(No.61422202108)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52176009).
文摘Formation keeping is important for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(multi-UAV)to fully play their roles in cooperative combats and improve their mission success rate.However,in practical applications,it is difficult to achieve formation keeping precisely and obstacle avoidance autonomously at the same time.This paper proposes a joint control method based on robust H∞ controller and improved Artificial Potential Field(APF)method.Firstly,we build a formation flight model based on the “Leader-Follower”structure and design a robust H∞ controller with three channels X,Y and Z to eliminate dynamic uncertainties,so as to realize high-precision formation keeping.Secondly,to fulfill obstacle avoidance efficiently in complex situations where UAVs fly at high speed with high inertia,this paper comes up with the improved APF method with deformation factor considered.The judgment criterion is proposed and applied to ensure flight safety.In the end,the simulation results show that the designed controller is effective with the formation keeping a high accuracy and in the meantime,it enables UAVs to avoid obstacles autonomously and recover the formation rapidly when coming close to obstacles.Therefore,the method proposed here boasts good engineering application prospect.
文摘Effective task assignment decisions are paramount for ensuring reliable task execution in multi-UAV systems.However,in the development of feasible plans,challenges stemming from extensive and prolonged task requirements are encountered.This paper establishes a decision-making framework for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(multi-UAV)based on the well-known pigeon-inspired optimization(PIO)algorithm.By addressing the problem from a hierarchical structural perspective,the initial stage involves minimizing the global objective of the flight distance cost after obtaining the entire task distribution and task requirements,utilizing the global optimization capability of the classical PIO algorithm to allocate feasible task spaces for each UAV.In the second stage,building upon the decisions made in the preceding stage,each UAV is abstracted as an agent maximizing its own task execution benefits.An improved version of the PIO algorithm modified with a sine-cosine search mechanism is proposed,enabling the acquisition of the optimal task execution sequence.Simulation experiments involving two different scales of UAVs validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.Moreover,dynamic events such as UAV damage and task changes are considered in the simulation to validate the efficacy of the two-stage framework.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61671031,61722102,91738301)。
文摘With the rapid development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)technology,one of the emerging fields is to utilize multi-UAV as a team under autonomous control in a complex environment.Among the challenges in fully achieving autonomous control,Cooperative task assignment stands out as the key function.In this paper,we analyze the importance and difficulties of multiUAV cooperative task assignment in characterizing scenarios and obtaining high-quality solutions.Furthermore,we present three promising directions for future research:Cooperative task assignment in a dynamic complex environment,in an unmanned-manned aircraft system and in a UAV swarm.Our goal is to provide a brief review of multi-UAV cooperative task assignment for readers to further explore.
基金co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61803009,61903084)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(No.YWF-20-BJ-J-542)Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(No.20175851032)。
文摘The paper proposes a new swarm intelligence-based distributed Model Predictive Control(MPC)approach for coordination control of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs).First,a distributed MPC framework is designed and each member only shares the information with neighbors.The Chaotic Grey Wolf Optimization(CGWO)method is developed on the basis of chaotic initialization and chaotic search to solve the local Finite Horizon Optimal Control Problem(FHOCP).Then,the distributed cost function is designed and integrated into each FHOCP to achieve multi-UAV formation control and trajectory tracking with no-fly zone constraint.Further,an event-triggered strategy is proposed to reduce the computational burden for the distributed MPC approach,which considers the predicted state errors and the convergence of cost function.Simulation results show that the CGWO-based distributed MPC approach is more computationally efficient to achieve multi-UAV coordination control than traditional method.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018AAA0102401)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62022060,61773278,61873340).
文摘In this paper,we present a distributed framework for the lidar-based relative state estimator which achieves highly accurate,real-time trajectory estimation of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)in GPS-denied environments.The system builds atop a factor graph,and only on-board sensors and computing power are utilized.Benefiting from the keyframe strategy,each UAV performs relative state estimation individually and broadcasts very partial information without exchanging raw data.The complete system runs in real-time and is evaluated with three experiments in different environments.Experimental results show that the proposed distributed approach offers comparable performance with a centralized method in terms of accuracy and real-time performance.The flight test demonstrates that the proposed relative state estimation framework is able to be used for aggressive flights over 5 m/s.