Electronics and Control

Coordinated task planning method of multiple heterogeneous Earth-observation platforms

  • WANG Huilin ,
  • WU Guohua ,
  • MA Manhao
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  • 1. Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunication Technology, Beijing 100094, China;
    2. College of Information Systems and Management, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

Received date: 2015-04-02

  Revised date: 2015-06-03

  Online published: 2015-12-04

Supported by

Major Project of High Resolution Earth Observation System(GFZX04060103)

Abstract

Currently, different Earth-observation resources are usually managed by different organization sub-planners which lack interactions and cooperation among each other. Such independent resource operations are no longer efficient to meet diverse and vast observation requests, especially in emergencies, such as earthquakes, flooding and forest fire disasters. This paper addresses the issue of the coordinated planning of heterogeneous observation platforms, including satellite, airship and unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV). First, an agent-based coordinated planning architecture is proposed to integrate heterogeneous observation resources into a distributed and loosely-coupled earth-observation system. Second, the coordinated task planning problem is transformed into a problem of the task assignment among sub-planners. Third, a simulated annealing algorithm combined with a tabu list(SA-TL) is proposed to solve the task assignment problem. SA-TL is integrated with a tabu-list strategy, which improves the performance efficiently. Experiments and comparative studies demonstrate the superiority of agent-based architecture and the efficiency of SA-TL.

Cite this article

WANG Huilin , WU Guohua , MA Manhao . Coordinated task planning method of multiple heterogeneous Earth-observation platforms[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2016 , 37(3) : 997 -1014 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2015.0171

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