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Coordinated rendezvous and surveillance for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) subject to actuator and sensor faults

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Coordinated rendezvous and surveillance for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) subject to actuator and sensor faults

Khan, Maria Palwasha (2008) Coordinated rendezvous and surveillance for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) subject to actuator and sensor faults. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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In this thesis, the problem of employing multiple UAVs for carrying out a Coordinated Strike and a Multiple UAV Surveillance mission has been addressed. The goal of the Coordinated Strike mission is for multiple UAVs to cooperate in order to simultaneously arrive at a high priority target to carry out a coordinated strike. The coordination strategy is based on coordination variables and coordination functions. A distributed system architecture is proposed that allows vehicles to communicate coordinating information across the team without reliance on a central ground controller. Simulations have been conducted to illustrate the performance of the coordination strategy under an actuator fault in single and multiple vehicles. The Multiple UAV Surveillance problem has been investigated by developing a hypothetical Border Surveillance Mission, wherein a UAV team is tasked to monitor a region along a border between two countries. The goal of the UAVs is to cover the entire surveillance region, while minimizing the team cost, which is a function of each vehicle's fuel consumption and mission time. Three fault cases in a single vehicle in the team have been simulated, namely (1) actuator; (2) sensor; and (3) simultaneous actuator and sensor faults. These faults necessitate a resource allocation problem to be solved, which is used to determine the configuration of the team engaged in the surveillance mission. The team chosen to perform the surveillance mission is the one that incurs the minimum cost for performing the mission.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Electrical and Computer Engineering
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Khan, Maria Palwasha
Pagination:xxi, 174 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M.A. Sc.
Program:Electrical and Computer Engineering
Date:2008
Thesis Supervisor(s):Khorasani, Khashayar
Identification Number:LE 3 C66E44M 2008 K483
ID Code:975893
Deposited By: Concordia University Library
Deposited On:22 Jan 2013 16:16
Last Modified:13 Jul 2020 20:09
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