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Multiple UAV Rendezvous with Collision Avoidance. Joel George and Debasish Ghose Guidance, Control, and Decision Systems Laboratory (GCDSL) Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India 560012. Introduction.
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Multiple UAV Rendezvous with Collision Avoidance Joel George and DebasishGhose Guidance, Control, and Decision Systems Laboratory (GCDSL) Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India 560012.
Introduction • Rendezvous: meeting at a pre-planned time and place • Rendezvous of multiple UAVs • For simultaneous deployment of resources • To exchange resources or critical information • Rendezvous of multiple UAVs when some of the UAVs have to do collision avoidance maneuvers en route
Assumptions • Kinematic UAV model is the position, is the velocity, is the heading, and is the turn rate command of UAV • Global communication between UAVs
Solution Approach • Rendezvous via consensus on Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) at target • ETA at target obtained from Dubins path to target • Arrive at a consensus on ETA by adjusting velocities
Solution Approach • Average consensus • In principle, any consensus protocol can be used. Average consensus protocol is used for the purpose of illustration
Handling velocity bounds • If a UAV hits the maximum velocity bound, it stays with that velocity • If a UAV hits the minimum velocity bound, it stays with that velocity and in addition does a wandering maneuver (move away from target)
Wandering maneuver example Example of a case where one UAV (red) hits upper velocity bound while other (green) hits lower velocity bound but still achieves a rendezvous
Rendezvous without collision avoidance • Example of rendezvous of 10 UAVs
Rendezvous with collision avoidance • Rendezvous of 5 UAVs with collision avoidance
Target tracking • Target tracking with a stand-off radius • Target tracking can be achieved by a little modification in the rendezvous via consensus algorithm • Stand-off radius achieved by keeping the ETA to target constant
Target tracking • Tracking a stationary target
Target tracking • Tracking moving target
Remarks • The algorithm developed for rendezvous via consensus can be modified by adding a ‘bias’ to address the cooperative timing problem
Summary • Algorithm for multiple UAV rendezvous under collision avoidance achieved via consensus on ETA to target