
Swarms and Network Intelligence in Search
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 11. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 238 pages
978-3-319-87591-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theory and tools needed for the development of an efficient and robust infrastructure for the design of collaborative patrolling unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, focusing on its applications for tactical intelligence drones. It discusses frameworks for robustly and near-optimally analyzing flocks of semi-autonomous vehicles designed to efficiently perform the ongoing dynamic patrolling and scanning of pre-defined "search regions". It discusses the theoretical limitations of such systems, as well as the trade-offs between the systems' various economic and operational parameters.
Current UAV systems rely mainly on human operators for the design and adaptation of drones' flying routes. However, recent technological advances have introduced new systems, comprised of a small number of self-organizing vehicles, manually guided at the swarm level by a human operator.
With the growing complexity of such man-supervised architectures, it is becoming increasingly harder to guarantee a pre-defined level of performance. The use of large scale swarms of UAVs as a combat and reconnaissance platform therefore necessitates the development of an efficient optimization mechanism of their utilization, specifically in the design and maintenance of their patrolling routes.
The book is intended for researchers and engineers in the fields of swarms systems and autonomous drones.
Current UAV systems rely mainly on human operators for the design and adaptation of drones' flying routes. However, recent technological advances have introduced new systems, comprised of a small number of self-organizing vehicles, manually guided at the swarm level by a human operator.
With the growing complexity of such man-supervised architectures, it is becoming increasingly harder to guarantee a pre-defined level of performance. The use of large scale swarms of UAVs as a combat and reconnaissance platform therefore necessitates the development of an efficient optimization mechanism of their utilization, specifically in the design and maintenance of their patrolling routes.
The book is intended for researchers and engineers in the fields of swarms systems and autonomous drones.
Reviews / Votes
"The book is a solid attempt to formally characterize the properties of domains and the swarms of robots operating in them. The algorithms are often described with figures that show sample environments and how the operations progress over time. This provides a good understanding of how the algorithms work." (M. Gini, Computing Reviews, January, 2019)More details
Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
63 s/w Abbildungen, 53 farbige Abbildungen
IX, 238 p. 116 illus., 53 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
382 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-87591-0 (9783319875910)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-63604-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Yaniv Altshuler | Alex Pentland | Alfred M. Bruckstein
Swarms and Network Intelligence in Search
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08/2017
Springer
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Content
Introduction to Swarm Search.- Cooperative "Swarm Cleaning" of Stationary Domains.- Swarm Search of Expanding Regions in Grids: Lower Bounds.- Swarm Search of Expanding Regions in Grids: Upper Bounds.- The Search Complexity of Collaborative Swarms Expanding Z2 Grid Regions.