Efficient UAV deployment strategy for reconnaissance

Abstract

A common application of UAVs is to search an area for certain targets. Often UAVs miss targets in spite of sensing the target region with its sensors. Possible reasons of missing targets and their remedy is suggested in the paper. Designing a UAV deployment strategy optimizing search time along with the dependability of the search is the focus of this work. A strategy, where different UAVs in a group search at different heights, is proposed to increase dependability of the search. The strategy is implemented in real battlefield simulation software and a comparison is made between the proposed strategy and an existing one in respect of time, dependability and fuel consumption. Result shows that proposed strategy offers highly dependable result in reasonable time outperforming the existing strategy.