TY - GEN
T1 - Decentralized Covert and Collaborative Radio Surveillance on a Group of Mobile Ground Nodes by a UAV Swarm
AU - Huang, Hailong
AU - Savkin, Andrey V.
AU - Ni, Wei
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by Australian Research Council. Also, this work received funding from the Australian Government, via grant AUS-MURIB000001 associated with ONR MURI grant N00014-19-1-2571.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - This paper considers using UAVs to carry out an active and collaborative radio surveillance on a group of ground mobile nodes while disguising the surveillance intention. The UAVs try to prevent being visually noticed by the nodes, and a new measure to quantify the disguising performance is proposed. We formulate a new trajectory optimization problem to maximize the new disguising metric subject to an uninterrupted surveillance requirement and the collision avoidance and the aeronautic maneuverability of the UAVs. A model predictive control (MPC) based scheme is developed. Computer simulations and comparisons with a random trajectory construction method show that the proposed method guarantees the surveillance performance without the loss of disguising performance.
AB - This paper considers using UAVs to carry out an active and collaborative radio surveillance on a group of ground mobile nodes while disguising the surveillance intention. The UAVs try to prevent being visually noticed by the nodes, and a new measure to quantify the disguising performance is proposed. We formulate a new trajectory optimization problem to maximize the new disguising metric subject to an uninterrupted surveillance requirement and the collision avoidance and the aeronautic maneuverability of the UAVs. A model predictive control (MPC) based scheme is developed. Computer simulations and comparisons with a random trajectory construction method show that the proposed method guarantees the surveillance performance without the loss of disguising performance.
KW - covert radio surveillance
KW - decentralized control
KW - model predictive control (MPC)
KW - trajectory planning
KW - UAV swarm
KW - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
KW - wireless communications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111137878&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/INDIN45582.2020.9442132
DO - 10.1109/INDIN45582.2020.9442132
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SP - 307
EP - 310
BT - 2020 IEEE 18th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)
ER -