Optimal Object Location by a Fleet of Various UAVs
Antoni Kopyt, Janusz P. Narkiewicz, Tomasz Malecki, Pawel Radyisyewski · AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference · 2015
Locate task optimization methodology and preliminary results for a various UAV fleet are presented in the article. In the main part of the paper, aircraft and sensor models are described with constraints imposed on areas covered by each aircraft. The models and operational area are discretised for implementing a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) algorithm with the objective to minimize the mission time. A two step optimization processes is described: 1) assign search areas to particular aircraft; 2) calculate trajectories for each vehicle.