Cooperative task assignment for heterogeneous multi-UAVs based on differential evolution algorithm

This paper deals with the assignment problem of multi heterogeneous uavs´ cooperation when accomplish reconnaissance attack and damage evaluation tasks. We propose a more practical heterogeneous multi-uavs task assignment model and the differences between heterogeneous UAV have been taken into account. In order to solve the model, we present a hierarchical task decoupling method to reduce the difficulty of solving the model and we develop a kind of adaptive differential evolution algorithm based on adaptive factor and population catastrophe to solve it .The simulation results show that the algorithm has fast convergence, optimization capability, and can solve the heterogeneous multi-UAV Cooperative tasks assignment problem effectively.