Maritime Search and Rescue Networking Based on Multi-Agent Cooperative Communication  

作　　者：Zhi Jiang Tingting Yang Lin Zhou Yuqing Yuan Hailong Feng 

机构地区：[1]Navigation College,Dalian Maritime University,Dalian 116026,China [2]School of Electrical Engineering and Intelligentization,Dongguan University of Technology,Dongguan 523000,China [3]College of Transportation Engineering,Dalian Maritime University,Dalian 116026,China

出　　处：《Journal of Communications and Information Networks》2019年第1期42-53,共12页通信与信息网络学报（英文）

基　　金：supported in part by Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61771086;China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2015T80238;Dalian Outstanding Young Science and Technology Talents Foundation.And it was partly published on IEEE Green Computing 2018.

摘　　要：Rapid and effective maritime search and rescue operations become the important guarantee for the safety of maritime navigation.The existing maritime search and rescue networking and model have slow response speed and low efficiency.The distribution,synergy,parallelism,robustness and intelligence of unmanned surface vehicle(USV)and unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)provide a new idea for the novel maritime search and rescue networking,in which multi-agent could be used to build a layered control network.In this paper,a novel rapid search and rescue system is proposed by utilizing the improved ant colony optimization and the independent calculation decision of the agents.The system adopts the edge computing,relies on the information sharing and the cooperative decision between the search and rescue agent groups.It achieves the independent synchronous search and rescue.At the same time,we use particle swarm optimization to intelligently schedule data packets during the rescue process to optimize network forwarding performance.Based on the distributed cluster control of USV and UAV,this paper combines edge computing,cooperative communication and centralized task allocation together to make decision for rescue.The simulation results show that our proposed schemes realize a significant improvement for maritime search and rescue.

关 键 词：edge computing cooperative communication swarm intelligence search and rescue 

分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]