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UAV Group Autonomy In Network Centric Environment

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Title UAV Group Autonomy In Network Centric Environment
 
Creator Suresh, M
 
Subject Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Group Autonomy
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Wireless MAV Network (WIMAN) GPS Protected
UAV Group Autonomy
Autonomous UAV Systems
UAV Autonomous Mission Control Levels
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Autonomous Control Levels
Aerial Vehicles
Ground Attack Missions
GPS
Global Positioning System
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Aeronautics
 
Description It is a well-recognized fact that unmanned aerial vehicles are an essential element in today’s network-centric integrated battlefield environment. Compared to solo UAV missions, multiple unmanned aerial vehicles deployed in co-operative mode, offer many advantages that has motivated UAV researchers all over the world to evolve concept of operations that aims in achieving a paradigm shift from traditional ”dull” missions to perform ”dirty” and ”dangerous” missions.
In future success of a mission will depend on interaction among UAV groups with no interaction with any ground entity. To reach this capability level, it is necessary for researchers, to first understand the various levels of autonomy and the crucial role that information and communication plays in making these autonomy levels possible.
The thesis is in four parts: (i) Development of an organized framework to realize the goal of achieving fully autonomous systems. (ii) Design of UAV grouping algorithm and coordination tactics for ground attack missions. (iii) Cooperative network management in GPS denied environments. (iv) UAV group tactical path and goal re-plan in GPS denied wide area urban environments.
This research thesis represents many first steps taken in the study of autonomous UAV systems and in particular group autonomy. An organized framework for autonomous mission control level by defining various sublevels, classifying the existing solutions and highlighting the various research opportunities available at each level is discussed. Significant contribution to group autonomy research, by providing first of its kind solution for UAV grouping based on Dubins’ path, establishing GPS protected wireless network capable of operating in GPS denied environment and demonstration of group tactical path and goal re-plan in a layered persistent ISR mission is presented. Algorithms discussed in this thesis are generic in nature and can be applied to higher autonomous mission control levels, involving strategic decisions among UAVs, satellites and ground forces in a network centric environment.
 
Contributor Ghose, Debasish
 
Date 2016-11-23T07:31:32Z
2016-11-23T07:31:32Z
2016-11-23
2013-07
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/2596
http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/abstracts/3365/G25993-Abs.pdf
 
Language en_US
 
Relation G25993