Parallel simulation of UAV swarm scenarios

Author

Corner, Joshua J. ; Lamont, Gary B.

Author_Institution

Air Force Res., Lab Rome Res. Site, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Dec. 2004

Lastpage

363

Abstract

The concept of operations for a micro-UAV system is adopted from nature from the appearance of flocking birds, movement of a school of fish, and swarming bees among others. This "emergent behavior" is the aggregate result of many simple interactions occurring within the flock, school, or swarm. Exploration of this emergent behavior in a swarm is accomplished through a high performance computing parallel discrete event simulation. After design of the system, several experiments are designed, tested, and analyzed for efficiency and effectiveness.

Keywords

aerospace simulation; control system analysis computing; discrete event simulation; emergent phenomena; microrobots; mobile robots; parallel processing; remotely operated vehicles; aerospace simulation; emergent behavior; high performance computing; micro-UAV system; mobile airborne machines; parallel discrete event simulation; swarm intelligence; unmanned aerial vehicles; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Force control; Humans; Marine animals; Mathematical model; Military computing; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8786-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2004.1371336

Filename

1371336