TY - GEN
T1 - Agent-based analysis of multi-UAV area monitoring mission effectiveness
AU - Zhang, Ruiwen
AU - Song, Bifeng
AU - Pei, Yang
AU - Tang, Wei
AU - Wang, Meng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper presents an agent-based analysis for the mission effectiveness of multi-UAV area monitoring. An agent-based operational model is presented for an exemplary offshore area monitoring mission. For modeling sensing behaviors of agents, a concept of information-domain delegate agent is proposed to model the detection, tracking, and fusion of ground moving target indication (GMTI) radar, and the Cramér–Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) is used to quantify the accuracy of tracking. A measure of awareness based on information entropy is proposed to evaluate the effectiveness, and Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to analyze the variation of awareness over time and the effects of deployment parameters on awareness. Results show that, the variation of awareness over time is characterized by randomness and discontinuity, and lower cruise velocity along with higher flight altitude is preferred for improving the overall awareness.
AB - This paper presents an agent-based analysis for the mission effectiveness of multi-UAV area monitoring. An agent-based operational model is presented for an exemplary offshore area monitoring mission. For modeling sensing behaviors of agents, a concept of information-domain delegate agent is proposed to model the detection, tracking, and fusion of ground moving target indication (GMTI) radar, and the Cramér–Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) is used to quantify the accuracy of tracking. A measure of awareness based on information entropy is proposed to evaluate the effectiveness, and Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to analyze the variation of awareness over time and the effects of deployment parameters on awareness. Results show that, the variation of awareness over time is characterized by randomness and discontinuity, and lower cruise velocity along with higher flight altitude is preferred for improving the overall awareness.
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M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85037738948
SN - 9781624104510
T3 - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 2017
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 2017
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
T2 - AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 2017
Y2 - 9 January 2017 through 13 January 2017
ER -