Perception-Aware Motion Control of Multiple Aerial Vehicle Transportation Systems

Mingfei Jiang, Mingshuo Zuo, Xinming Yu, Rong Guo, Ruixi Wang, Yushu Yu*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

How to ensure that multiple aerial vehicle transportation systems can accurately track a target despite the dynamical constraints? In a general Unmanned Aerial System, the system can identify the target by sensors to adjust its flight status. However, for Multiple Aerial Vehicle Transportation Systems, if each unmanned aerial vehicle has sensors with different fields of view on board, it creates conflicts in the system and does not enable proper sensing. Moreover, the added perceptual requirements in the system will also cause conflicts with the corresponding flight dynamics constraints and will have some impact on the flight path. In this regard, we add a perception model for Multiple Aerial Vehicle Transportation Systems in Model Predictive Control to solve these conflicting problems. In this paper, we first add a perceptual constraint model of the transportation system with the camera as the sensor to the previously established dynamics simulation model. And the model is applied to multiple UAVs so that multiple cameras can aim at the same target for tracking. Then, we can solve feasible UAV motion states by incorporating the MPC of the perception model. In this way, we provide a feasible method for multi-sensor information fusion for Multiple Aerial Vehicle Transportation Systems. Finally, the simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCognitive Systems and Information Processing - 7th International Conference, ICCSIP 2022, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsFuchun Sun, Angelo Cangelosi, Jianwei Zhang, Yuanlong Yu, Huaping Liu, Bin Fang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages474-488
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9789819906161
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event7th International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing, ICCSIP 2022 - Fuzhou, China
Duration: 17 Dec 202218 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1787 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing, ICCSIP 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityFuzhou
Period17/12/2218/12/22

Keywords

  • Model predictive control
  • Multiple Aerial Vehicle Transportation Systems
  • Perception

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