Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the mission success performance and mission times of centralized, distributed, and hybrid path-planning methods for a drone team whose mission is to find a target and inform the ground control. We propose two methods that integrate connectivity into the search mission path decisions. We observe that even though the coverage path-planning leads to lower search times, when target connectivity is also required, schemes that incorporate end--end connectivity into path planning result in at least 50 % better mission times for small communication ranges and lower number of drones. Our results also indicate that methods to efficiently allocate resources to search and communication tasks in mission-oriented drone networks need to be designed.
DOI
10.3906/elk-1912-46
Keywords
Drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, path planning, target detection, monitoring, swarms, networking
First Page
2228
Last Page
2243
Recommended Citation
ADAM, E. Y (2020). Connectivity considerations for mission planning of a search and rescue drone team. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 28 (4): 2228-2243. https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1912-46
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