Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gioia, Daniele Giovanni, Bonari, Jacopo, Lichte, Daniel, Popp, Alexander
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10346
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866913635755884544
author Gioia, Daniele Giovanni
Bonari, Jacopo
Lichte, Daniel
Popp, Alexander
author_facet Gioia, Daniele Giovanni
Bonari, Jacopo
Lichte, Daniel
Popp, Alexander
contents The combined use of data from different sources can be critical in emergencies, where accurate models are needed to make real-time decisions, but high-fidelity representations and detailed information are simply unavailable. This study presents a data assimilation framework based on an ensemble Kalman filter that sequentially exploits and improves an advection-diffusion model in a case study concerning an airborne contaminant dispersion problem over a complex two-dimensional domain. An autonomous aerial drone is used to sequentially observe the actual contaminant concentration in a small fraction of the domain, orders of magnitude smaller than the total domain area. Such observations are synchronized with the data assimilation framework, iteratively adjusting the simulation. The path of the drone is sequentially optimized by balancing exploration and exploitation according to the available knowledge at each decision time. Starting from an erroneous initial model based on approximated assumptions that represent the limited initial knowledge available during emergency scenarios, results show how the proposed framework sequentially improves its belief about the dispersion dynamics, thus providing a reliable contaminant concentration map.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2410_10346
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Sequential drone routing for data assimilation on a 2D airborne contaminant dispersion problem
Gioia, Daniele Giovanni
Bonari, Jacopo
Lichte, Daniel
Popp, Alexander
Systems and Control
The combined use of data from different sources can be critical in emergencies, where accurate models are needed to make real-time decisions, but high-fidelity representations and detailed information are simply unavailable. This study presents a data assimilation framework based on an ensemble Kalman filter that sequentially exploits and improves an advection-diffusion model in a case study concerning an airborne contaminant dispersion problem over a complex two-dimensional domain. An autonomous aerial drone is used to sequentially observe the actual contaminant concentration in a small fraction of the domain, orders of magnitude smaller than the total domain area. Such observations are synchronized with the data assimilation framework, iteratively adjusting the simulation. The path of the drone is sequentially optimized by balancing exploration and exploitation according to the available knowledge at each decision time. Starting from an erroneous initial model based on approximated assumptions that represent the limited initial knowledge available during emergency scenarios, results show how the proposed framework sequentially improves its belief about the dispersion dynamics, thus providing a reliable contaminant concentration map.
title Sequential drone routing for data assimilation on a 2D airborne contaminant dispersion problem
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10346