• DocumentCode
    618133
  • Title

    Fire tracking with collective intelligence using dynamic priority maps

  • Author

    Howden, David J.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Comput. & Eng. Software Syst., Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    20-23 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    2610
  • Lastpage
    2617
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a swarm control algorithm based on distributed pheromone maps to effectively track a moving fire front. The algorithm uses a single heuristic to maintain persistent surveillance to detect new fires, while concurrently allowing for tracking of known fires. Control of the swarm is fully distributed and self-contained; requiring no external communication infrastructure and being resilient to individual hardware failures.
  • Keywords
    autonomous aerial vehicles; distributed control; fires; multi-robot systems; path planning; collective intelligence; communication infrastructure; distributed pheromone map; dynamic priority map; fire detection; fire tracking; hardware failure; swarm control algorithm; unmanned aerial vehicle; Cameras; Fires; Fuels; Heuristic algorithms; Peer-to-peer computing; Robots; Surveillance; UAS; UAV; collective; distributed; fire; pheromone; swarm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2013 IEEE Congress on
  • Conference_Location
    Cancun
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0453-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0452-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CEC.2013.6557884
  • Filename
    6557884