Swarms and network intelligence in search

✍ Scribed by Altshuler, Yaniv; Bruckstein, Alfred; Pentland, Alex

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Series: Studies in computational intelligence 729
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. . Read more...

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. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction to Swarm Search (Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 1-14
Cooperative “Swarm Cleaning” of Stationary Domains (Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 15-49
Swarm Search of Expanding Regions in Grids: Lower Bounds (Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 51-89
Swarm Search of Expanding Regions in Grids: Upper Bounds (Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 91-127
The Search Complexity of Collaborative Swarms in Expanding (\mathbf{Z}^{2}) Grid Regions (Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 129-153
Collaborative Patrolling Swarms in Stochastically Expanding Environments (Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 155-185
The Cooperative Hunters – Efficient and Scalable Drones Swarm for Multiple Targets Detection (Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 187-205
Optimal Dynamic Coverage Infrastructure for Large-Scale Fleets of Reconnaissance UAVs (Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 207-238

✦ Subjects

Swarm intelligence;Drone aircraft -- Control systems