Improved method for subsystems performance trade-off in system-of-systems oriented design of UAV swarms  

作　　者：ZHANG Ruiwen SONG Bifeng PEI Yang YUN Qijia 

机构地区：[1]School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University

出　　处：《Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics》2019年第4期720-737,共18页系统工程与电子技术（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11872314);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFB1300102)

摘　　要：For the rapidly developing unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)swarm,the system-of-systems(SoS)oriented design is a prospective conceptual design methodology due to the competence for complex mission requirements and subsystems interactions.In the SoS oriented design,the subsystems performance trade-off is the basis of design decisions.In the trade-off for surveillance missions,most previous works do not consider track reporting and mainly focus on the design of platforms.An improved method for the subsystems performance trade-off in the SoS oriented UAV swarm design is proposed.Within an improved design framework with subsystems disaggregation,this method is characterized by treating platforms,sensors,and communications as equally important subsystems,integrating operational strategies into the trade-off,and enabling the trade-off for track reporting.Those advantages are achieved by a behavior-based modular model structure for agent-based operational modeling and simulation.In addition,a method of analyzing the bounds of the communication range is also presented.Simulation experiments are conducted by using precision-based simulation replication rules and surrogate modeling methods.The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method,and show that the configuration of area partitioning changes the trade space of subsystems performances,indicating the necessity of integrating operational strategies into the conceptual design.For the rapidly developing unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) swarm, the system-of-systems(So S) oriented design is a prospective conceptual design methodology due to the competence for complex mission requirements and subsystems interactions. In the So S oriented design, the subsystems performance trade-off is the basis of design decisions. In the trade-off for surveillance missions, most previous works do not consider track reporting and mainly focus on the design of platforms. An improved method for the subsystems performance trade-off in the So S oriented UAV swarm design is proposed. Within an improved design framework with subsystems disaggregation, this method is characterized by treating platforms, sensors, and communications as equally important subsystems, integrating operational strategies into the trade-off, and enabling the trade-off for track reporting.Those advantages are achieved by a behavior-based modular model structure for agent-based operational modeling and simulation. In addition, a method of analyzing the bounds of the communication range is also presented. Simulation experiments are conducted by using precision-based simulation replication rules and surrogate modeling methods. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and show that the configuration of area partitioning changes the trade space of subsystems performances, indicating the necessity of integrating operational strategies into the conceptual design.

关 键 词：SWARM system-of-systems(SoS) trade-off agent area partitioning 

分 类 号：V27[航空宇航科学与技术—飞行器设计]