Citation

Kumar M, Cohen K, Homchaudhuri B. Journal of aerospace computing, information, and communication 2011; 8(1): 1-16.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011)

DOI

10.2514/1.48403

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Uninhabited marital goals provide personal bandages and fighting wildland fires betting persistent operation and elimination of humans from forming what can be dull, dangerous, and dirty work. Multiple are cooperating on inhabited aerial vehicles can potentially bring about paradigm shift in the way we fight complex wildland fires. This paper investigates algorithmic development for cooperative control of a number of on inhabited aerial vehicles engaged in fighting a wild land fire. This paper considers two tasks to be performed by a group of on inhabited aerial vehicles : 1) cooperative tracking of a fire front for accurate situational awareness, and 2) cooperative, autonomous firefighting using fires present fluid. The scenario considered in This paper makes the following assumptions information regarding the location of the fire and position of all uninhabited aerial vehicles is made available to each uninhabited aerial vehicle; and each uninhabited aerial vehicle is equipped with unlimited fire suppression fluid which extinguishes fire in a circle of a specified area directly beneath. This paper formulates these two tasks of firefighting based upon optimization of respected utility functions, develops a decentralized control method for Cooperative uninhabited aerial vehicles, and analyzes the system for its stability and its ability to carry out the tasks. The proposed strategies have been verified with the help of extensive simulations. Although simplifying assumptions of been made, this preliminary study presents a framework for Path planning and cooperative control of multiple uninhabited Ariel vehicles engaged in gathering data is actually fighting forest fires.