Non-autonomous Area Coverage and Coordination of a Multi-agent System for Harbor Protection Applications

Suruz Miah, Bao Nguyen, Alex Bourque, Davide Spinello

2018

Abstract

We propose optimal strategies to develop an automated layered defence system for protecting structured environments, illustrated here by a typical harbor. The harbor is modeled as a two-dimensional environment, with a cooperative set of autonomous mobile agents to be deployed as the defence system. Optimal deployment is measured in a well-known area coverage metric, that encodes agents’ sensing performance and a weight measure defined on the harbor, which allows to represent a priori and time varying risk field. The time-varying risk field allows to model several interesting scenarios. In this work, we consider the case of area surveillance against moving targets or external threats penetrating through the perimeter. We present a feedback control law for the platoon of surveying agents that implies the emergency of locally optimal configurations, that adapt to time evolving harbor environments.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nguyen B. and Spinello D. (2018). Non-autonomous Area Coverage and Coordination of a Multi-agent System for Harbor Protection Applications.In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DMSS, ISBN 978-989-758-323-0, pages 486-492. DOI: 10.5220/0006926804860492

in Bibtex Style

@conference{dmss18,
author={Bao Nguyen and Davide Spinello},
title={Non-autonomous Area Coverage and Coordination of a Multi-agent System for Harbor Protection Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DMSS,},
year={2018},
pages={486-492},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006926804860492},
isbn={978-989-758-323-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DMSS,
TI - Non-autonomous Area Coverage and Coordination of a Multi-agent System for Harbor Protection Applications
SN - 978-989-758-323-0
AU - Nguyen B.
AU - Spinello D.
PY - 2018
SP - 486
EP - 492
DO - 10.5220/0006926804860492