Mobility Strategies based on Virtual Forces for Swarms of Autonomous UAVs in Constrained Environments

Ema Falomir, Serge Chaumette, Gilles Guerrini

2017

Abstract

The usage of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has recently become a major question. For wide area surveillance missions, a swarm of UAVs can be much more efficient than a single vehicle. In this case, several aircrafts cooperate in order to fulfill a mission while avoiding collisions between each other and with obstacles. This article proposes original distributed mobility strategies for autonomous swarms of UAVs, the goal of which is to fulfill a surveillance mission. Our work is based on virtual forces and our approach allows narrow areas crossing that require a compact formation of the autonomous swarm.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Falomir E., Chaumette S. and Guerrini G. (2017). Mobility Strategies based on Virtual Forces for Swarms of Autonomous UAVs in Constrained Environments . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-263-9, pages 221-229. DOI: 10.5220/0006418202210229

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco17,
author={Ema Falomir and Serge Chaumette and Gilles Guerrini},
title={Mobility Strategies based on Virtual Forces for Swarms of Autonomous UAVs in Constrained Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2017},
pages={221-229},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006418202210229},
isbn={978-989-758-263-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Mobility Strategies based on Virtual Forces for Swarms of Autonomous UAVs in Constrained Environments
SN - 978-989-758-263-9
AU - Falomir E.
AU - Chaumette S.
AU - Guerrini G.
PY - 2017
SP - 221
EP - 229
DO - 10.5220/0006418202210229