Disguised Tailing and Video Surveillance with Solar-Powered Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- Publisher:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022, 71, (5), pp. 5507-5518
- Issue Date:
- 2022-05-01
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Disguised tailing and visual monitoring of suspicious mobile targets is a promising application of security unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). But trajectory planning is non-trivial, especially for fixed-wing UAVs with more constrained maneuverability and dynamic models. This paper proposes a new framework to optimize collectively the propulsion power and the three-dimensional (3D) trajectory of a solar-powered, fixed-wing UAV on a disguised tailing and video surveillance mission. The multi-objective optimization strikes a balance between distance keeping, elevation variance, and power efficiency. A key aspect is that we develop a new propulsion power model of the fixed-wing UAV by analyzing the forces undergone while the UAV is ascending or descending. Another important aspect is a series of non-trivial reformulations, which convexify the multi-objective problem progressively with increasingly tightening linear approximation and solve the problem with a polynomial time-complexity. Our algorithm can control the trajectory of the UAV on-the-fly. Simulations confirm that the algorithm outperforms existing schemes in terms of visual disguise and power efficiency. The fixed-wing UAV also demonstrates its advantage of energy efficiency and sustainability to elongate the surveillance mission, over its rotary-wing counterpart.
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