Multiple unmanned air/ground vehicles heterogeneous cooperation is a novel and challenging filed.Heterogeneous cooperative techniques can widen the application fields of unmanned air or ground vehicles,and enhance the...Multiple unmanned air/ground vehicles heterogeneous cooperation is a novel and challenging filed.Heterogeneous cooperative techniques can widen the application fields of unmanned air or ground vehicles,and enhance the effectiveness of implementing detection,search and rescue tasks.This paper mainly focused on the key issues in multiple unmanned air/ground vehicles heterogeneous cooperation,including heterogeneous flocking,formation control,formation stability,network control,and actual applications.The main problems and future directions in this field were also analyzed in detail.These innovative technologies can significantly enhance the effectiveness of implementing complicated tasks,which definitely provide a series of novel breakthroughs for the intelligence,integration and advancement of future robot systems.展开更多
Multiple unmanned air vehicles(UAVs)/unmanned ground vehicles(UGVs) heterogeneous cooperation provides a new breakthrough for the effective application of UAV and UGV.On the basis of introduction of UAV/UGV mathematic...Multiple unmanned air vehicles(UAVs)/unmanned ground vehicles(UGVs) heterogeneous cooperation provides a new breakthrough for the effective application of UAV and UGV.On the basis of introduction of UAV/UGV mathematical model,the characteristics of heterogeneous flocking is analyzed in detail.Two key issues are considered in multi-UGV subgroups,which are Reynolds Rule and Virtual Leader(VL).Receding Horizon Control(RHC) with Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) is proposed for multiple UGVs flocking,and velocity vector control approach is adopted for multiple UAVs flocking.Then,multiple UAVs and UGVs heterogeneous tracking can be achieved by these two approaches.The feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed method are verified by comparative experiments with artificial potential field method.展开更多
This paper proposed an improved artificial physics(AP)method to solve the autonomous navigation problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)/unmanned ground vehicles(UGVs)heterogeneous coordination in the three...This paper proposed an improved artificial physics(AP)method to solve the autonomous navigation problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)/unmanned ground vehicles(UGVs)heterogeneous coordination in the three-dimensional space.The basic AP method has a shortcoming of easily plunging into a local optimal solution,which can result in navigation fails.To avoid the local optimum,we improved the AP method with a random scheme.In the improved AP method,random forces are used to make heterogeneous multi-UAVs/UGVs escape from local optimum and achieve global optimum.Experimental results showed that the improved AP method can achieve smoother trajectories and smaller time consumption than the basic AP method and basic potential field method(PFM).展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.60975072 and 60604009)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China (Grant No.NCET-10-0021)the Beijing NOVA Program Foundation (Grant No.2007A017)
文摘Multiple unmanned air/ground vehicles heterogeneous cooperation is a novel and challenging filed.Heterogeneous cooperative techniques can widen the application fields of unmanned air or ground vehicles,and enhance the effectiveness of implementing detection,search and rescue tasks.This paper mainly focused on the key issues in multiple unmanned air/ground vehicles heterogeneous cooperation,including heterogeneous flocking,formation control,formation stability,network control,and actual applications.The main problems and future directions in this field were also analyzed in detail.These innovative technologies can significantly enhance the effectiveness of implementing complicated tasks,which definitely provide a series of novel breakthroughs for the intelligence,integration and advancement of future robot systems.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60975072 and 60604009)Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2008ZC01006)+4 种基金Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China (Grant No. NCET-10-0021)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant No. YWF-10-01-A18)Beijing NOVA Program Foundation (Grant No. 2007A017)open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and SystemsOpen Fund of the Provincial Key Laboratory for Information Processing Technology, Suzhou University, China (Grant No. KJS1020)
文摘Multiple unmanned air vehicles(UAVs)/unmanned ground vehicles(UGVs) heterogeneous cooperation provides a new breakthrough for the effective application of UAV and UGV.On the basis of introduction of UAV/UGV mathematical model,the characteristics of heterogeneous flocking is analyzed in detail.Two key issues are considered in multi-UGV subgroups,which are Reynolds Rule and Virtual Leader(VL).Receding Horizon Control(RHC) with Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) is proposed for multiple UGVs flocking,and velocity vector control approach is adopted for multiple UAVs flocking.Then,multiple UAVs and UGVs heterogeneous tracking can be achieved by these two approaches.The feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed method are verified by comparative experiments with artificial potential field method.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61273054,60975072)the National Basic Research Program of China("973" Project)(Grant No.2013CB035503)+3 种基金the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China(Grant No.NCET-10-0021)the Top-Notch Young Talents Program of Chinathe Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Chinathe Aeronautical Foundation of China(Grant No.20115151019)
文摘This paper proposed an improved artificial physics(AP)method to solve the autonomous navigation problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)/unmanned ground vehicles(UGVs)heterogeneous coordination in the three-dimensional space.The basic AP method has a shortcoming of easily plunging into a local optimal solution,which can result in navigation fails.To avoid the local optimum,we improved the AP method with a random scheme.In the improved AP method,random forces are used to make heterogeneous multi-UAVs/UGVs escape from local optimum and achieve global optimum.Experimental results showed that the improved AP method can achieve smoother trajectories and smaller time consumption than the basic AP method and basic potential field method(PFM).
