Task Decision-Making for UAV Swarms Based on Robustness Evaluation

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is an emerging technology that will expand the application of UAVs and present the new requirements for its reliability and robustness. However, in the current research for the task decision-making of UAV swarms, few papers have considered the system robustness. That will be hard to adapt to some tasks with high uncertainty. Therefore, based on our previous research, this paper proposes a task decision-making method for UAV swarms considering system robustness under two kinds of dynamic evolution processes. Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is used to solve this model. The validity of the method is verified by a case study. The method presented in this paper can provide some guidance for the mission planning and formation size control for UAV swarms.