Swarms and network intelligence in search 1st ed.

Author

• Altshuler, Yaniv

Additional Author(s)

• Pentland, Alex
• Bruckstein, Alfred M.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2018

Language

English

ISBN

9783319636047

Series

Studies in computational intelligence 729

Subject(s)

• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• DRONE AIRCRAFT--CONTROL SYSTEMS
• SWARM INTELLIGENCE

Notes

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Abstract

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theory and tools needed for the development of an efficient and robust infrastructure for the design of collaborative patrolling unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, focusing on its applications for tactical intelligence drones. It discusses frameworks for robustly and near-optimally analyzing flocks of semi-autonomous vehicles designed to efficiently perform the ongoing dynamic patrolling and scanning of pre-defined “search regions”. It discusses the theoretical limitations of such systems, as well as the trade-offs between the systems’ various economic and operational parameters. Current UAV systems rely mainly on human operators for the design and adaptation of drones’ flying routes. However, recent technological advances have introduced new systems, comprised of a small number of self-organizing vehicles, manually guided at the swarm level by a human operator. With the growing complexity of such man-supervised architectures, it is becoming increasingly harder to guarantee a pre-defined level of performance. The use of large scale swarms of UAVs as a combat and reconnaissance platform therefore necessitates the development of an efficient optimization mechanism of their utilization, specifically in the design and maintenance of their patrolling routes. The book is intended for researchers and engineers in the fields of swarms systems and autonomous drones. .

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (ix, 238 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill. (in color.)

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction to Swarm Search --
Cooperative “Swarm Cleaning” of Stationary Domains --
Swarm Search of Expanding Regions in Grids: Lower Bounds --
Swarm Search of Expanding Regions in Grids: Upper Bounds --
The Search Complexity of Collaborative Swarms Expanding Z2 Grid Regions.

Exemplar(s)

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1.	01619/20	006.3824 Alt S	Online !	Available