A multi-UAV system for coverage path planning applications with in-flight re-planning capabilities

This paper presents the development and implementation of a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle system focused on coverage path planning on multiple separated areas capable of re-planning the collective mission in case of unexpected events. For this purpose, we present a distributed-centralized archite...

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Autores: Luna, Marco Andrés, Molina González, Martín, Da-Silva-Gomez, Rodrigo, Melero-Deza, Javier, Arias-Perez, Pedro, Campoy, Pascual
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/396210
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/396210
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85190464893
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Coverage path planning
Distributed systems
Fault-tolerant systems
Multi-UAV systems
Task replanning
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Sumario:This paper presents the development and implementation of a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle system focused on coverage path planning on multiple separated areas capable of re-planning the collective mission in case of unexpected events. For this purpose, we present a distributed-centralized architecture that uses heuristic and computationally efficient methods to perform the planning/re-planning and decision-making tasks during the control of the mission execution. We performed a computational evaluation of the algorithms, comparing them with other proposals, together with experiments in simulated and real flights. The results show that the system can distribute tasks equitably among the aircraft in an efficient way, even in the middle of the flight, when facing unexpected events; and show a higher computational efficiency when compared to multiple proposals in the state of the art.