A Convoy of Ground Mobile Vehicles Protection using Cooperative UAVs-based System
Aicha Idriss Hentati, Lamia Chaari Fourati · 2021
The last decade has witnessed a growth related to the use of cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in several complex military and civilian applications. Among the cooperative-based UAV applications, this paper considers the protection of Convoy of Ground Mobile Vehicles (CGMV). The sketched problem is a canonical problem that requires coordinating a team of UAVs including their movements, tasks, and balancing resources. In this regard, we propose an efficient task allocation scheme. Besides that, the suggested approach is based on a hybrid strategy combining the circular path and the path ahead protection strategies involving two UAV sets. The first UAV set performs a circular path encircling all the vehicles in the convoy and protects them from the potential threats on the two lateral sides. The second UAV set explores the path ahead of the convoy. The conceived convoy protection scheme, called CGMVP-CUAVs, is validated by simulation using the NetLogo3D environment. Different experiments were conducted to analyze the efficiency of the proposed approach. Simulation results demonstrate the robustness of our strategy.