Design and Analysis of Collaborative Unmanned Surface-Aerial Vehicle Cruise Systems

• Main Authors: Man Zhu, Yuan-Qiao Wen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2019-01-01
• Series: Journal of Advanced Transportation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1323105

With the increasing application of unmanned surface vehicle-unmanned aerial vehicles (USV-UAVs) in maritime supervision, research on their deployment and control is becoming vitally important. We investigate the application of USV-UAVs for synergistic cruising and evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed collaborative model. First, we build a collaborative model consisting of the cruise vehicles and communication, detection, and command-and-control networks for the USV-UAV. Second, based on an analysis of the problems faced by collaborative USV-UAV systems, we establish a model to evaluate the effectiveness of such synergistic cruises. Third, we propose a weighting method for each evaluation factor. Finally, a model consisting of one UAV and four USVs is employed to validate our synergistic cruise model.