Collision Avoidance Method for Self-Organizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flights
Huang, Yang (College of Systems Engineering. National University of Defense Technology)
Tang, Jun (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Clúster d'Innovació Tecnològica en Gestió Aeronàutica)
Lao, S. (College of Systems Engineering. National University of Defense Technology)

Data:	2019
Resum:	Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm flights have been investigated widely. In the presence of a high airspace density and increasingly complex flight conditions, collision avoidance between UAV swarms is very important; however, this problem has not been fully addressed, particularly among self-organizing flight clusters. In this paper, we developed a method for avoiding collisions between different types of self-organized UAV clusters in various flight situations. The Reynolds rules were applied to self-organized flights of UAVs and a parameter optimization framework was used to optimize their organization, before developing a collision avoidance solution for UAV swarms. The proposed method can self-organize the flight of each UAV swarm during the overall process and the UAV swarm can continue to fly according to the self-organizing rules in the collision avoidance process. The UAVs in the airspace all make decisions according to their individual type. The UAVs in different UAV swarms can merge in the same space while avoiding collisions, where the UAV's self-organized flight process and collision avoidance process are very closely linked, and the trajectory is smooth to satisfy the actual operational needs. The numerical and experimental tests were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The results confirmed the effectiveness of this approach where self-organized flight cluster collision avoidance was successfully achieved by the UAV swarms.
Nota:	This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, China, under Grant 71601181, in part by the Young Talents Lifting Project, China, under Grant 17JCJQQT048, in part by the Huxiang Young Talents, China, under Grant 2018RS3079, and in part by the Complex Situational Cognitive Technology under Grant 315050202.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Collision avoidance ; Parameter optimization ; Reynolds rules ; Self-organized ; Unmanned aerial vehicle cluster
Publicat a:	IEEE Access, Vol. 7 (2019) , p. 85536-85547, ISSN 2169-3536

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2925633

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