Affiliation:
1. System Engineering Department, Sejong University, Seoul 2639, Republic of Korea
Abstract
This article introduces a ship defense strategy using a planar grid formation of multiple drones. We handle a scenario where a high-speed target with variable velocity heads towards the ship. The ship measures the position of the target in real time. Based on the measured target, the drones guidance laws are calculated by the ships on-board computer and are sent to every drone in real time. The drones form a planar grid formation, whose center blocks the Line-Of-Sight (LOS) line connecting the target and the ship. Since the target is guided to hit its goal (ship), the drones can effectively block the target by blocking the LOS line. We enable slow drones to capture a fast target by making the drones stay close to the ship while blocking the LOS at all times. By using a grid formation of drones, we can increase the capture rate, even when there exists error in the prediction of the target’s position. To the best of our knowledge, this article is unique in using a formation of multiple drones to intercept a fast target with variable velocity. Through MATLAB simulations, the effectiveness of our multi-agent guidance law is verified by comparing it with other state-of-the-art guidance controls.
Funder
faculty research fund of Sejong university
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
Reference58 articles.
1. A Comprehensive Survey of Control Strategies for Autonomous Quadrotors;Kim;Can. J. Electr. Comput. Eng.,2020
2. Santana, L.V., Brandao, A.S., and Sarcinelli-Filho, M. (2015, January 9–12). Outdoor waypoint navigation with the AR. Drone quadrotor. Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Denver, CO, USA.
3. Trajectory generation and control for precise aggressive maneuvers with quadrotors;Mellinger;Int. J. Robot. Res.,2012
4. Bar-Shalom, Y., and Fortmann, T.E. (1988). Tracking and Data Association, Academic Press.
5. Vision-Based Target Detection and Localization via a Team of Cooperative UAV and UGVs;Minaeian;IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst.,2016