Reliability of surveillance mission with unmanned aerial vehicles

Author

Ng, K.M. ; Jiang, J. ; Peng, R. ; Poh, K.L. ; Teo, K.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1554

Lastpage

1557

Abstract

This paper has modeled the reliability of surveillance mission with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In order to surveil a number of targets, some UAVs can be assigned to visit the targets. It is assumed that if a UAV is shot down during the mission all the targets assigned to the UAV cannot be surveilled. The mission is regarded as successful if all the targets are assigned and successfully surveilled. An optimization framework is presented to solve the UAV routing plan with the consideration of mission reliability.

Keywords

autonomous aerial vehicles; military vehicles; mobile robots; optimisation; path planning; reliability; search problems; surveillance; UAV routing plan; military forces; optimization framework; surveillance mission reliability; tabu search; unmanned aerial vehicles; Optimization; Reliability engineering; Routing; Surveillance; Unmanned aerial vehicles; mission reliability; optimization; surveillance; tabu search; unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

2157-3611

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0740-7

Electronic_ISBN

2157-3611

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2011.6118178

Filename

6118178