Efficient Deployment of Energy-constrained Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in 3-dimensional Space
Hunsue Lee, Junghyun Oh, Jae Do Jeon, Beom-Hee Lee · 2016
In this paper, we present an efficient approach to deployment for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). For a number of scattered tasks, we aim to minimize the duration of time that all UAVs reach their task locations. In our previous work, we suggested the collaborative deployment algorithm for mobile robots using a carrier robot which transports and deploys the mobile robots. However, the method worked only in 2-dimensional plane where UAV could not be applied. Therefore, this paper extends the previous work on 3-dimensional space and gives the relevant algorithm. Finally, we presents the feasibility of the proposed algorithm by simulation results.