Effects of target arrival rate on mission performance of cooperatively controlled UAVs with communication constraints

Abstract

We investigate the effects of target arrival rate on the communication and mission performance of cooperatively controlled uninhabited aerial vehicles with task allocation performed by iterative network flow. Specifically, we quantify the effect of arrival rate on observed statistics of communication and mission performance. The statistics of interest are peak communication data rate, execution defects. The effects are seen in a series of vehicle-target scenarios simulated in the US Air Force Research Laboratory's MultiUAV environment.