Proactive optimization of transmission power and 3D trajectory in UAV-assisted relay systems with mobile ground users

In this paper, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted relay communication system is studied, where a UAV is served as a flying relay to maintain a communication link between a mobile source node and a remote destination node. Specifically, an average outage probability minimization problem is formulated firstly, with the constraints on the transmission power of the source node, the maximum energy consumption budget, the transmission power, the speed and acceleration of the flying UAV relay. Next, the closed-form of outage probability is derived, under the hybrid line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight probability channel model. To deal with the formulated nonconvex optimization, a long-term proactive optimization mechanism is developed. In particular, firstly, an approximation for line-of-sight probability and a reformulation of the primal problem are given, respectively. Then, the reformulated problem is transformed into two subproblems: one is the transmission power optimization with given UAV’s trajectory and the other is the trajectory optimization with given transmission power allocation. Next, two subproblems are tackled via tailoring primal–dual subgradient method and successive convex approximation, respectively. Furthermore, a proactive optimization algorithm is proposed to jointly optimize the transmission power allocation and the three-dimensional trajectory. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm under various parameter configurations.     

Robust trajectory planning for UAV communication systems in the presence of jammers

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) has emerged as a promising novel application for the Sixth-Generation(6G) wireless communication by leveraging more favorable Line-of-Sight(Lo S)propagation. However, the jamming resistance by exploiting UAV’s mobility is a new challenge in the UAV-ground communication. This paper investigates the trajectory planning problem in an UAV communication system, where the UAV is operated by a Ground Control Unit(GCU)to perform certain tasks in the presence of multiple jamm...     

基于能量优化的无人机机动轨迹生成方法

基于能量优化的无人机机动能够使无人机在不失去决定性位置优势的情况下获取相对于对手的能量优势，足够的能量优势可转换为有效的位置优势，有利于无人机在空战中随时改出当前机动并投入下一机动动作，对于无人机获取空战胜利至关重要。开展了基于能量优化的无人机机动轨迹生成方法研究，通过在无人机机动飞行包线内设计合适的机动指令，使得无人机能量性能指标最优。以上升转弯机动为例进行了机动轨迹生成的详细设计，并与常规上升转弯机动轨迹生成结果进行对比，仿真结果显示所设计的机动动作完成时间缩短了28.6%~83.8%，总能量变化减少了64.7%~70.1%，实现了无人机机动飞行的能量优化。     

固定翼无人机编队集结控制算法研究

针对固定翼无人机协同作战时的编队集结问题，提出了一种新的路径规划和位置分配方法，并设计了包括航迹跟踪、高度保持和速度控制在内的自动驾驶仪。该路径规划算法通过矩阵迭代得到一组较优的目标点分配方案，满足总航程较小和同时到达约束。根据得到的各无人机飞向目标点的航迹，算出无人机编队集结的代价矩阵。在每架无人机确定了应飞航路后，开始沿航路飞向目标点，在此过程中，纵向采用高度保持自动驾驶仪，横向采用航迹跟踪自动驾驶仪，控制无人机按规定航迹飞行。速度调节自动驾驶仪可根据速度指令调节油门大小加减速，跟踪上目标速度，进而实现编队集结。仿真结果验证了所提出的编队集结控制方法的有效性和可行性。     

Battery package design optimization for small electric aircraft

The increasing gross weight of electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) poses a challenge in practical applications. The range and endurance of the electric UAV are limited by the fixed mass of the battery package. In this work, a design optimization method for the battery package topology of small electric UAV is proposed to enhance the performance. To improve the accuracy of the method, the dynamic battery model and simplified electric component models are presented. These models are utilized by the trajectory optimization method, which takes the dynamic characteristic into consideration to calculate the aircraft performance. The direct optimal control method is used for solving the trajectory optimization problem, and this method is tested on a small blended-wing-body electric aircraft. The test result shows that the range and energy-consumption are mainly influenced by the parallel topology of the battery package, while the flight time in climb phase is more sensitive to the series topology. It is deduced that the range- and energy-optimal design points can be considered concurrently in design optimization. The work proves the feasibility of integrating the trajectory optimization and battery package design.     

应用轨迹优化策略的直升机任务科目基元仿真

任务科目基元的飞行试验是ADS-33E-PRF对直升机飞行品质的判定标准。针对直升机设计过程中飞行品质难以事先评定的特点,提出了一种基于轨迹优化策略的直升机任务科目基元数值仿真方法。该方法将飞行品质规范对直升机位置、姿态和速度的限制处理为状态量的边界约束,以完成任务科目基元的时间为目标函数,结合直升机自身的性能和安全性约束,建立了针对任务科目基元的直升机轨迹优化模型。求解该模型得到直升机完成相应任务科目基元所用的时间,便可定性判断直升机飞行品质是否满足ADS-33E-PRF对这一任务科目基元的要求,从而在设计之初对优化直升机总体设计参数提供参考。对某型直升机悬停转弯机动科目进行仿真计算,验证了该方法的正确性和有效性。     

基于改进A^*算法的无人机快速轨迹规划方法

针对旋翼无人机在三维障碍物环境中自主飞行时路径搜索速度慢、轨迹生成通常忽略无人机动力学特性的问题,发展一种基于改进A^*算法并同时考虑无人机动力学特性和运动学性能的快速轨迹规划方法。首先,在三维障碍物环境中运用改进A^*算法通过剔除部分网格节点降低A^*算法的节点计算量,提升算法的路径搜索速度;其次,以最小化飞行轨迹的四阶导数作为目标函数,以路径点处的位置、速度、加速度等各阶导数作为约束条件优化飞行轨迹;最后,在三维障碍物环境中对比A^*算法改进前后的路径搜索结果,并对优化的飞行轨迹进行仿真飞行测试。结果表明:改进A^*算法大幅降低了A^*算法的节点计算量,显著提升了路径搜索速度;且无人机能够始终以较小位置误差沿优化轨迹光滑连续飞行。     

考虑多边界状态约束的飞翼布局无人机姿态控制

以大展弦比飞翼布局无人机为研究对象,针对强扰动环境下多边界状态约束时的飞行姿态控制问题,提出一种指令-控制律联合限制的全状态约束控制方法。该控制方法分别独立设计了指令边界限制器、过渡指令产生器和指令跟踪控制器3个部分。首先,基于无人机动力学特性设计的指令边界限制器,利用无人机的各个状态边界来限制姿态控制器的指令,实现了将非受控状态的约束问题转化为受控状态的约束问题;其次,基于"安排过渡过程"的思想并考虑约束限制环节,设计了过渡指令产生器,为无人机在线生成从当前姿态到期望跟踪姿态的过渡指令;最后,基于障碍Lyapunov函数和扩张状态观测器,设计了指令跟踪控制器,使无人机能够克服干扰且快速稳定地跟踪过渡指令。通过采用Lyapunov稳定性理论分析,该控制方法能够保证姿态跟踪误差收敛有界,且始终处于给定区间内部。仿真结果表明,该控制方法能够保证无人机飞行状态在不超出约束边界的同时,实现对姿态指令的准确跟踪。     

Energy-efficient data collection for UAV-assisted IoT: Joint trajectory and resource optimization

Internet of Things (IoT) can be conveniently deployed while empowering various applications, where the IoT nodes can form clusters to finish certain missions collectively. As energy-efficient operations are critical to prolong the lifetime of the energy-constrained IoT devices, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) can be dispatched to geographically approach the IoT clusters towards energy-efficient IoT transmissions. This paper intends to maximize the system energy efficiency by considering both the IoT transmission energy and UAV propulsion energy, where the UAV trajectory and IoT communication resources are jointly optimized. By applying large-system analysis and Dinkelbach method, the original fractional optimization is approximated and reformulated in the form of subtraction, and further a block coordinate descent framework is employed to update the UAV trajectory and IoT communication resources iteratively. Extensive simulation results are provided to corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

多太阳能无人机覆盖路径优化方法

为解决传统电动无人机在覆盖作业时存在的续航时间短的问题,提出应用多架太阳能无人机进行覆盖作业。首先,在建立了应用于覆盖作业的太阳能无人机的能量模型的基础上,提出了能量流动效率这一指标来评价太阳能无人机在作业过程中对能量的利用率。其次,针对边界存在障碍物的凹多边形区域和内部含障碍物的多边形区域,以总作业完成时间最短为优化目标,提出基于无向图搜索方法的覆盖路径优化模型,定义约束方程限制无人机按照一定规则访问无向图中的节点,通过混合整数线性规划的方法求解每架无人机的最优飞行路径。再次,考虑无人机转弯时的姿态变化对能量流动效率的影响,将总作业完成时间最短和总能量流动效率最高同时作为优化目标,建立双目标优化方程,在首先以作业时间最短为优化目标进行求解的基础上,通过有限遍历的方式选择使能流效率和作业时间相对最优的覆盖飞行方向及飞行路径。大量仿真实验表明,所提的优化模型选取不同的优化目标,应用于不同形状的待覆盖区域,适用性广,在工程上应用范围广、可行性强。     

Novel intelligent water drops optimization approach to single UCAV smooth trajectory planning

Trajectory planning of unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) is a rather complicated global optimum problem in UCAV mission planning. Intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm is newly presented under the inspiration of the dynamic of river systems and the actions that water drops do in the rivers, and it is easy to combine with other methods in optimization. In this paper, we propose an improved IWD optimization algorithm for solving the single UCAV smooth trajectory planning problems in various combating environments. The water drops can act as an agent in searching the optimal UCAV trajectory. The detailed realization procedure for this novel approach is also presented. In order to make the optimized UCAV trajectory more feasible for exact flying, an efficient path smoothing method called the κ-trajectory is adopted for smoothing the single UCAV trajectory. Series experimental comparison results show the proposed IWD optimization algorithm is more effective and feasible in the single UCAV smooth trajectory planning than the basic IWD model.     

穿越微下冲气流的飞翼布局无人机控制方法

微下冲气流是最危险的低空风切变形式,为在起降阶段安全穿越该气流,飞翼布局的无人机控制律应具有快速响应能力和良好的鲁棒性。针对大展弦比飞翼布局无人机舵面附加升力大和低速状态俯仰操纵效能低的特点,提出了舵面附加升力和机体气动力相结合的复合控制方案,改进了以输出误差为参考量的非线性指令分配策略,设计了基于迎角保护的指令分配策略。将风干扰和模型的不确定性视为未知扰动,采用自抗扰控制(ADRC)理论设计飞翼布局无人机非线性控制律,使之对风干扰和模型的不确定性进行估计补偿。仿真结果表明,复合控制与ADRC相结合的方法加速了航迹倾角的单位阶跃响应速度,使上升时间缩短了64%,同时能够实现对风干扰的有效观测和补偿,使高度损失低于2m;能够在风切变中有效保护迎角,使其维持在5.5°以内。因此,该方法能够为飞翼布局无人机安全平稳地穿越微下冲气流提供一种参考方案。     

编队卫星队形重构防碰撞最优轨迹规划

 针对编队卫星队形重构的轨迹规划问题,提出了直接配置混合整数线性规划(DCMILP)方法。首先将卫星编队飞行问题进行简化,整个过程使用线性化描述;继而将三阶Simpson方法扩展至编队卫星的队形重构过程中,将各卫星的状态量和控制量在各节点处离散化;然后根据目标函数及碰撞规避问题等各种约束条件,将整个过程转化为混合整数线性规划问题,从而可以找到该非凸问题的全局最优解。最后,通过对三维和二维两组编队卫星队形重构进行仿真,由结果可以看出,与传统方法相比该方法快速有效,能够满足实时性的要求,使得卫星编队的自主运行成为可能。     

基于罚函数序列凸规划的多无人机轨迹规划

多无人机（UAVs）轨迹规划是具有非线性运动约束和非凸路径约束的最优控制问题。引入序列凸规划思想,将非凸最优控制问题近似为一系列凸优化子问题,并利用成熟的凸优化算法进行求解,以更好地权衡最优性和时效性。首先,建立了多无人机协同轨迹规划的非凸最优控制模型。然后,利用离散化和凸近似方法将其转换为凸优化问题,包括对无人机运动模型的线性化,以及对威胁规避约束和无人机碰撞约束的凸化。同时,提出了一种离散点间的威胁规避方法,保证无人机在离散轨迹点间的飞行安全。在凸优化模型的基础上,给出了基于罚函数序列凸规划求解多无人机轨迹规划的具体框架。最后,通过数值仿真验证了方法的有效性,结果表明该方法在多机轨迹规划结果的最优性和时效性都要优于伪谱法,而且优势随编队数量的增加而增大。     

基于RHC的无人机自主轨迹优化算法研究

介绍了一种无人机长航程飞行的轨迹优化的新方法.在禁飞区、最大航速和曲率等约束条件下,在滚动时域控制RHC(Receding Hoirzon Control)框架中使用混整线性规划MILP(Mix-Integer Linear Programming)来设计无人机最短时间的航迹,其中引入罚函数来说明从航迹端点到达目标点的估计时间.仿真结果表明,使用这种方法,无人机可以顺利穿过障碍物区域,可以处理确定时间窗口的控制FHC(Fixed Horizon Controller)难于处理的长航程复杂优化问题.     

无人机参数优化自抗扰编队保持控制器设计

针对无人机编队飞行中的队形保持问题,采用结合粒子群算法的自抗扰控制技术对控制器进行设计,使响应过程具有良好的动态品质和较小的稳态误差。建立三维空间内基于相对误差的无人机编队飞行模型,并在此基础上设计了跟踪微分器、扩展状态观测器和非线性状态反馈自抗扰控制器,采用粒子群算法对控制器中部分参数进行优化整定。仿真结果表明,设计的结合粒子群算法的改进自抗扰控制器具有良好的控制性能,能以较高的精度实现无人机编队保持任务。     

基于Voronoi图和蚁群算法的无人机航迹规划

为提高无人机任务环境模拟的真实性,利用改进后的Voronoi图对任务环境进行建模.同时,为了更快地生成一条满足任务需求的最优飞行航迹,提高航迹规划的实战性和高效性,分析了蚁群航迹规划算法的运行原理,以及算法运行机制对算法性能的影响,提出了算法的改进原则,并在此基础上给出了新的信息素更新方式和新的启发式.利用改进后的蚁群...     

基于导向强化Q学习的无人机路径规划

随着无人机的广泛应用,其飞行能耗和计算能力面临着瓶颈问题,因此无人机路径规划研究越来越重要。很多情况下,无人机并不能提前获得目标点的确切位置和环境信息,往往无法规划出一条有效的飞行路径。针对这一问题,提出了基于导向强化Q学习的无人机路径规划方法,该方法利用接收信号强度定义回报值,并通过Q学习算法不断优化路径;提出"导向强化"的原则,加快了学习算法的收敛速度。仿真结果表明,该方法能够实现无人机的自主导航和快速路径规划,与传统算法相比,大大减少了迭代次数,能够获得更短的规划路径。     

Robust optimization of aircraft weapon delivery trajectory using probability collectives and meta-modeling

 Conventional trajectory optimization techniques have been challenged by their inability to handle threats with irregular shapes and the tendency to be sensitive to control variations of aircraft. Aiming to overcome these difficulties, this paper presents an alternative approach for trajectory optimization, where the problem is formulated into a parametric optimization of the maneuver variables under a tactics template framework. To reduce the size of the problem, global sensitivity analysis (GSA) is performed to identify the less-influential maneuver variables. The probability collectives (PC) algorithm, which is well-suited to discrete and discontinuous optimization, is applied to solve the trajectory optimization problem. The robustness of the trajectory is assessed through multiple sampling around the chosen values of the maneuver variables. Meta-models based on radius basis function (RBF) are created for evaluations of the means and deviations of the problem objectives and constraints. To guarantee the approximation accuracy, the meta-models are adaptively updated during optimization. The proposed approach is demonstrated on a typical airground attack mission scenario. Results reveal that the proposed approach is capable of generating robust and optimal trajectories with both accuracy and efficiency.     

小型无人机纵向飞行品质研究

目前针对无人机的飞行品质评估标准缺失,都是参照有人机飞行品质准则对无人机进行评价,而且评价的标准也不统一。通过对某小型无人机增稳前后的性能进行分析对比,验证了有人机飞行品质标准中的CAP准则和带宽准则对小型无人机的适用性,进而提出了小型无人机纵向飞行品质评定方法,对无人机飞行品质的研究具有一定的借鉴作用。