RSPECT: Robust and Scalable Planner for Energy-Aware Coordination of UAV-UGV Teams in Aerial Monitoring

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Hauptverfasser: Er, Cahit Ikbal, Kashiri, Amin, Yazicioglu, Yasin
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author Er, Cahit Ikbal
Kashiri, Amin
Yazicioglu, Yasin
author_facet Er, Cahit Ikbal
Kashiri, Amin
Yazicioglu, Yasin
contents We consider the robust planning of energy-constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), which act as mobile charging stations, to perform long-horizon aerial monitoring missions. More specifically, given a set of points to be visited by the UAVs and desired final positions of the UAV-UGV teams, the objective is to find a robust plan (the vehicle trajectories) that can be realized without a major revision in the face of uncertainty (e.g., unknown obstacles/terrain, wind) to complete this mission in minimum time. We provide a formal description of this problem as a mixed-integer program (MIP), which is NP-hard. Since exact solution methods are computationally intractable for such problems, we propose RSPECT, a scalable and efficient heuristic. We provide theoretical results on the complexity of our algorithm and the feasibility and robustness of resulting plans. We also demonstrate the performance of our method via simulations and experiments.
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spellingShingle RSPECT: Robust and Scalable Planner for Energy-Aware Coordination of UAV-UGV Teams in Aerial Monitoring
Er, Cahit Ikbal
Kashiri, Amin
Yazicioglu, Yasin
Robotics
Multiagent Systems
We consider the robust planning of energy-constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), which act as mobile charging stations, to perform long-horizon aerial monitoring missions. More specifically, given a set of points to be visited by the UAVs and desired final positions of the UAV-UGV teams, the objective is to find a robust plan (the vehicle trajectories) that can be realized without a major revision in the face of uncertainty (e.g., unknown obstacles/terrain, wind) to complete this mission in minimum time. We provide a formal description of this problem as a mixed-integer program (MIP), which is NP-hard. Since exact solution methods are computationally intractable for such problems, we propose RSPECT, a scalable and efficient heuristic. We provide theoretical results on the complexity of our algorithm and the feasibility and robustness of resulting plans. We also demonstrate the performance of our method via simulations and experiments.
title RSPECT: Robust and Scalable Planner for Energy-Aware Coordination of UAV-UGV Teams in Aerial Monitoring
topic Robotics
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21957