Presentation 2017-03-03
On Obstacle Avoidance by Splitting a Group of Drones Based on Basic Operation Rules of Boids
Genta Obata, Masaki Aida,
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Abstract(in English) Recently, we expect to utilize drones in various scenes, and delivery service by drones would be realized near future. In the operation of the drone in the urban area, it is expected that the flight route will be restricted to predetermined places such as on a river from safety measures against accidents such as crash. Under such situations, it is necessary to operate a large number of drones in a narrow space, and a technique for group control of a large number of drones is required rather than operating individual drones separately. One idea of realizing such group control is Reynolds’ boids model. In the boids model, the size and structure of the drones group changes according to the values of parameters in the basic operation rule of the agent. Conventional researches for avoiding obstacles have clarified that agent group can avoid obstacles by individual agent judgment under the condition that position of obstacles are known. However, it is not always possible to forecast the occurrence of obstacles and to specify the position of them. In this paper, by changing the parameters of the boids model at the time of approaching an obstacle, we show basic investigation for which the way to divide the drone group for avoiding obstacles.
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Keyword(in English) drone / boids / autonomous distributed control
Paper # IN2016-130
Date of Issue 2017-02-23 (IN)

Conference Information
Committee NS / IN
Conference Date 2017/3/2(2days)
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Place (in English) OKINAWA ZANPAMISAKI ROYAL HOTEL
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Topics (in English) General
Chair Hideki Tode(Osaka Pref. Univ.) / Katsunori Yamaoka(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT) / Takuji Kishida(NTT)
Secretary Yoshikatsu Okazaki(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Takuji Kishida(NTT)
Assistant Shohei Kamamura(NTT) / Kunitake Kaneko(Keio Univ.) / Takashi Natsume(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Information Networks
Language JPN
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Title (in English) On Obstacle Avoidance by Splitting a Group of Drones Based on Basic Operation Rules of Boids
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) drone
Keyword(2) boids
Keyword(3) autonomous distributed control
1st Author's Name Genta Obata
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan University(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ)
2nd Author's Name Masaki Aida
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan University(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ)
Date 2017-03-03
Paper # IN2016-130
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) IN-485
Page pp.pp.199-204(IN),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-02-23 (IN)