A system that based on cutting-edge developments in aerospace technologies, offering advancements which are opening new and enhanced civil-commercial applications as well as improvements to the safety and efficiency of the entire civil aviation. The terms RPA or UAV are used to describe the aircraft itself, whereas the term RPAS is generally used to describe the entire operating equipment including the aircraft, the control station from where the aircraft is operated and the wireless data link.
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Automated System of Controlling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Group Flight: Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Group
Tetiana Shmelova (National Aviation University, Ukraine) and Dmitriy Bondarev (National Aviation University, Ukraine)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 35
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7900-7.ch008
Abstract
In this chapter, the authors present a problem of a performance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) group flights for a solution of different tasks using criteria of efficiency (safety, regularity, efficiency, economy) and criteria of reliability (connectivity, structural redundancy, survivability, and compactness of connections; the relative distance between UAVs; centrality and periphery of UAVs in the group; the level of system centralizing; etc.). It used graph theory for quantitative estimation of effectiveness of UAVs group flight. It presented all types of UAVs connections in the group (a star, ring, tree, with a common tire, mixed, cellular, etc.). The algorithm for finding central drone repeater (CDR) in a group of the UAVs for sending a control signal to other UAVs in the group was obtained. Examples of for determining the central drone and of the optimal topology in a group of the UAVs in flight are presented.